What is 'Mole Day'?!
Answers: I keep seeing questions like "What are you making for Mole Day?" What IS that? Is it mole like the animal? Or mo - le, like the Mexican sauce? Is it religious? Is it secular? And how come no one answers, "What's Mole?"? Everyone seems to know what it is. Except me.
Lol, my chemistry teacher was talking about it. It's an unofficial holiday celebrated by many chemists and chemistry fans in honor of the mole (1 mole= 6.022 X 10 to the 23 power). It's a unit that is used in chemistry.
"Scientists and students around the world celebrate Mole Day with various activities related to chemistry and/or moles.
Mole Day is celebrated annually on October 23 from 6:02 a.m. to 6:02 p.m. in honor of Avogadro's Number (6.02 x 1023)."
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BTW, if you want to learn more about the mole (boring stuff) just type in "mole chemistry" on google
You are not the only one who doesn't know what 'Mole Day' is - I don't either and was going to ask the same question when I saw yours.
Mole is used in Chemistry often as symbol's or measurements.
Mole day is 10.23 of every year because to find the MOL (moles) of an atom you use 6.022 x 10to the 23 power
chemistry....i think the equation(?) is called avogadros number
"Mole Day" is an unofficial day celebrated by chemists. The "mole" is a word that is used to describe an amount of any substance in chemistry, based on Avogadro's number, which is 6.02×1023. Chemists celebrate the day on 6:02 10/23--see the similarity? It's a sort of nerd holiday.
Remember Avogadro's # from chem class?
http://www.moleday.org/
Mole Day is an unofficial holiday celebrated among chemists in North America on October 23, between 6:02 AM and 6:02 PM, making the date 6:02 10/23 in the American style of writing dates. The time and date are derived from the Avogadro constant, which is approximately 6.02×1023, defining the number of particles (atoms or molecules) in a mole, one of the seven base SI units.
Mole Day originated in an article in The Science Teacher in the early 1980s. Inspired by this article, Maurice Oehler, now a retired high school chemistry teacher from Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, founded the National Mole Day Foundation (NMDF) on May 15, 1991.
Many high students around the United States and in Canada celebrate Mole Day as a way to get their students interested in chemistry. Paula Lundin, a chemistry teacher at Gladstone High School in Gladstone, Michigan, has provided a number of sample activities for her students. Examples include "Scavenger Hunt - Create a list of household items but use chemistry terms for the items you want. Such as: Something that contains NaHCO3," or "Write a Mole Day poem, story, or cartoon." Some teachers also have the class make mole themed craft projects.
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