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My professor who had us read the Iliad went all crazy about the notion of glory and what it meant without really defining glory. It was a bit odd.
I suppose glory is just killing people and making an adventure of it.
Most movies in 3D seem a bit superfluous, but there’s a movie coming out in 3D/IMAX called “Flight of the Butterflies” which looks absolutely stupendous. One day, I shall see this. One day…
I keep my cell phone on vibrate most of the time. Of course, when someone does call me and my phone is in my pocket, I jump up and cry out like a crazy person.
A mol of moles! Though, really, since I wrote this, the head honchos changed Avogadro’s number to 6.022 x10^23, instead of 6.022×10^23. Oh well. You will have to suffer with what my chemistry textbooks taught me.
I never really understood what that unit was about for the longest time, since this is how it was inevitably described to me:
“A mol is whatever you want it to be!”
“So… can it be a hot fudge sundae?”
“You can have a mol of that, sure! But, really, it’s the amount of carbon atoms in a gram.”
“…um… what about my hot fudge sundae?”
“Sure, it can be that as well!”
WHAT?
So, for those suffering from my confusion, the simple answer is this:
A mol is a unit to measure atomic quantity, with it being based on the number of carbon atoms in a gram. Except it’s weirder than that but… just ignore that bit.