THIS YEAR: Mole Day is Thursday 10-23 [2008]
Theme this year: Mole of Fortune;
In Chemistry a mole is NOT an animal!!
10-23 is Mole Day because the date is significant. The Mole is the most important concept in Chemistry. On Mole Day we celebrate this number. It is a unit of measuring atoms/molecules. A mole is simply a number, like "1 dozen" is the number 12. "One mole" is a much greater number! It is equal to 6.02 X 10^23! To give you an idea of how large this number is:1 Mole of marshmallows would cover the entire earth and be 12 miles high!!! Is that a large number???
1 Mole of marbles would fill the entire Grand Canyon and there would still be enough left over to displace all the water in Lake Michigan and a few other lakes!
