National Mole Day!

[Charlie in Dayton]

There is a day during the year that commemorates Avogadro's Number...

Ladies and germs, I give you
National Mole Day!

There's a theme song! There's national awards! There's an online store with mole-inspired ceramic desktop tchotchkes, rubber stamps, cookie cutters, postcards, pins, shirts and more! There's Mole Day terminology! There's Mole Day jokes! There's a contest to convince the gubmint to come out with a Mole Day Postage Stamp! There's a club you can join!

Think I'm kidding? As my little sister used to say, nuh-uh!!!

Check it out!
National Mole Day!

 

[Chareen]

Yes, I know about Mole day. We celebrated in High School. Chem teacher was nutz for Mole Day. She used to dress up and get on the desk and do her Mole Day Dance!


Happy Mole Day Mrs Rhoner, wherever you may be.

 

[Rolfe]

In that case, what's the chance of the medical establishment in the USA joining the rest of the world (and thus becoming mutually comprehensible to the rest of the world) in using molar SI units in clinical biochemistry? I had to WRITE A FLAMING TEXT-BOOK in my subject, because the only texts available were US publications and so couched in units which were grossly misleading to my students.

Rolfe.

 

[Brown]

My high school chemistry teacher was the first person to try to explain "moles" to me. He did it badly. He insisted upon littering his explanation with puns and jokes, and as a result, I could not figure out what a "mole" was. He was like that all term, making jokes with every new concept. This humor made him popular as a teacher, but I was never sure whether he was teaching or kidding.

When I took college Chemistry, there was a simple, straightforward explanation of the mole. No puns. No jokes. The concept was surprisingly easy to grasp. Other concepts were far more difficult, but they were explained fairly well and without joking around.

I did not do well in high school chemistry. College chemistry was much harder than high school chemistry (my university used Chemistry as a "weed-out" class to discourage those who had aspirations of going to medical school but did not want to work hard). Even so, I took home top marks in college-level Chemistry in part because the profs didn't try to make jokes at every opportunity.

 

[wayrad]

My high school chemistry teacher was the first person to try to explain "moles" to me. He did it badly. He insisted upon littering his explanation with puns and jokes, and as a result, I could not figure out what a "mole" was.

I see, he made a mountain out of a....
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