What is National Mole Day?
Any images of a burrowing creature celebration will be deleted right away; National Mole Day honors a unique number in chemistry. Each year on October 23rd, Chemists and chemistry students mark the occasion each year.
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More specifically, the festivities take place between 6:02 AM and 6:02 p.m. on Sunday. The time and date are written in the United States, 6:02 10/23.' The time and date are calculated from Avogadro's number. The number of Avagadro's number is 6.021023.23.23. Hence, one of the seven base SI units is defining the number of particles (atoms or molecules) in one mole of a substance.
- A mole is a unit of measurement used in chemistry to indicate quantities of a chemical substance
