Okay ready...Avogadro's Number
Avogadro's Number
Okay now that I've got that out of my system
Let's talk about what Avogadro's number actually is
And the reason we chose that number because we found the in a gram of just about anything.
There's around 6 times 10 to the 23 elementary particles in it
But we needed to define a number that could convert that many things into a number we can talk about
So we had to define some really big number that we could just say it's one of those so that's where we define a mole.
So a mole is one Avogadro's number and then once we've defined a mole
We don't have to talk about having 6 times 10 to the 23 of something..
we can just say that we have one mole of something or 1.23 moles of something and
that's why we define the mole as one Avogadro's number because it gives us a way to convert a bunch of little small things
into one bigger thing. But the question on everybody's mind is what would happen if you had a mole of moles.
Well, luckily Randall Munroe in his book What If? answers that question?
So basically if we gathered a mole of moles in outer space,
they would come together due to their own gravity pulling them together and they would start to compress, and they would eventually
compress together to form a full entire planet of moles and it would be about the size of the moon and
That planet of the mole of moles would have a surface gravity around
1/16 of Earth's now the planet of moles would be extremely hot and under high pressure on the inside
but after a while after a few centuries or millennia
it would begin to cool and it would eventually form ice. And
because moles are mostly made of water and the inside of the planet is mostly water and under high pressure,
it would form exotic forms of ice.
It could form ice 3 ice 5 and eventually ice 2 and ice 4.
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