The Man, the Myth, the Mole
find the one
Submitted 6 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
perishthethought@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I wish I had an avocado.
crazyCat@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Can someone help a pleb like me know the guy and the number reference?
witty_username@feddit.nl 6 months ago
It’s Avogadro’s constant. The number of carbon atoms in 12 grams of carbon.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avogadro_constantacetanilide@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Wait. They redefined it in 2019 but I thought that “new” way was what I did in school 🤔
DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Isn’t it the number of atoms of ANY element for it’s element in number of grams?
sirprize@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Look up Avogadro
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 6 months ago
You kids these days with your Avogadro toast…
No_Change_Just_Money@feddit.de 6 months ago
Holy Mole-y
OhmsLawn@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Three Twentysix explains it brilliantly
Zink@programming.dev 6 months ago
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.
errer@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Either people didn’t know how to draw back then, or Avogado was monstrously ugly…
VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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.
ilikecoffee@lemmy.world 6 months ago
He looks like a mole…
someacnt_@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Maybe I look like him… 😥
indepndnt@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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.
_thebrain_@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
[deleted]vaionko@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
No? It’s the number of particles per mol, a huge number.
mumblerfish@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Hey, that number is off by 2.14076 * 10^21
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 6 months ago
AvogadBRO
Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Is that Avogadro’s constant?
Bumblefumble@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Yes, it’s the avocado man himself in the picture.