The Man, the Myth, the Mole
Is that Avogadro’s constant?
Yes, it’s the avocado man himself in the picture.
I wish I had an avocado.
Can someone help a pleb like me know the guy and the number reference? Edit: thanks guys!, I’ll study him :-)
It’s Avogadro’s constant. The number of carbon atoms in 12 grams of carbon.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avogadro_constantWait. They redefined it in 2019 but I thought that “new” way was what I did in school 🤔
They changed the definition, the value is the same (within the error of the best available measurement of the time).
Isn’t it the number of atoms of ANY element for it’s element in number of grams?
Look up Avogadro
You kids these days with your Avogadro toast…
Holy Mole-y
Look up en passant
And that’s how you capture a thread.
Three Twentysix explains it brilliantly
I love this image, and this was one of my favorite numbers in science too. Sometimes I think it’s more difficult to imagine how insanely small the atomic scale is than how insanely large the cosmic scale is.
Either people didn’t know how to draw back then, or Avogado was monstrously ugly…
He looks like a mole…
This style of drawing wasn’t about making someone look pretty or ugly it was about making an accurate portrait, so he likely looked very similar.
I googled “was Avogadro ugly” and found this picture posted on r/funny ten years ago. But also quite a few people seem to agree that he was indeed quite ugly.
Maybe I look like him… 😥
Hey, that number is off by 2.14076 * 10^21
AvogadBRO
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No? It’s the number of particles per mol, a huge number.
