Mole Day!

w00t , it's mole day!
for those of u not in chemistry ( 6.02 x 10^23).
so what'd u all do to spend mole day?

i went to pet's discount to adopt a mole, but sadly they had none, and told me to "go **** myself" right before kicking me out.

Hmmm...that's funny, I always celebrated on June 9th of every year.

what is mole's day?

One mole of a substance is the amount of that substance which contains 6x1023 particles of that substance.

This has been pounded into my head more than i need. It's basically a measurement of how strong an element is....i.e 12 moles of hydrochloric acid on your hand would burna hole in you. 2 moles would not.

This is really freakey, but today in chemistry, my sample got from trying to obtain a sample of ethanoic acid from ethanol, using 8 m concentrated sulphuric acid, blew up in my teachers hand. I had brought the sample of the green substance to the back of the class , and she gave me a cork. Because of the swishing motion of the liquid and the heat of my hand, the solution started boiling, with a cork on it. I had really jambed the cork down into it, so she took it off me and tried to get it out. That's when it exploded, green acid flew everywhere....my clothes i'm wearing now is covered in the stuff. (for you geeks, it was green because of the sulphuric acid = calcium dicarbide and the ethanol). Sulphuric acid is clear....

No burns thank god, most of the acid was vaporised by then

I got low grades on my chemistry subjects....i didn't like my teacher's way of teaching.

Christ...I thought I was weird looking.

Originally posted by Alpha2Cookie
Christ...I thought I was weird looking.

you are. :D

no, just b/c it was avocado's bday, doesn't make it moleday.
for some reason they decided to make it oct. 23rd b/c 10^23.
http://www.moleday.org/
and some great jokes:
http://www.moleday.org/htdocs/mole_jokes.html

enjoy :p

You must understand, I'm a bit older than the folks who started the MoleDay foundation and was celebrating Avogadro's birthday before the foundation was even a gleam in a geek's eye.

Yeah, sure.

;o)

I perfromed 8 titrations all of which were in .01ml's of each other
I was impressed by my results, despite not having learned anything of real vaule.
I think took 120,349,030 mol's of H0H and drank it .... but not really

HOH??? Doesn't exist...Why do 8 titrations? Surely 5 is enough