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Is that Avogadro’s constant?

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Yes, it’s the avocado man himself in the picture.

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The Man, the Myth, the Mole

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I wish I had an avocado.

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Can someone help a pleb like me know the guy and the number reference? Edit: thanks guys!, I’ll study him :-)

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It’s Avogadro’s constant. The number of carbon atoms in 12 grams of carbon.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avogadro_constant

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Wait. They redefined it in 2019 but I thought that “new” way was what I did in school 🤔

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They changed the definition, the value is the same (within the error of the best available measurement of the time).

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Isn’t it the number of atoms of ANY element for it’s element in number of grams?

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Look up Avogadro

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You kids these days with your Avogadro toast…

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Holy Mole-y

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Look up en passant

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And that’s how you capture a thread.

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Three Twentysix explains it brilliantly

https://youtu.be/SRiNc1AA8vg?si=F81tl_hCI16MWlvv

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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.

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