Sticking with Chemistry on Mole Day!

Happy National Chemistry Week! This year's theme is "Sticking with Chemistry," a celebration of the science of glues and adhesives. It's no coincidence that today is also Mole Day, the annual festival honoring Avogadro's Number - the number of molecules or atoms that comprise a mole of a substance: 6.02 x 1023. That's 602,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 molecules …

It’s National Chemistry Week! What do Marvelous Metals have to do with nanotechnology?

Happy Mole Day! On October 23 we celebrate Avogadro's Number (6.02 x 1023), an important unit of measurement in chemistry. Every year, the American Chemical Society promotes the week that includes Mole Day as National Chemistry Week (NCW). This year, NCW is October 20-26, and the theme is Marvelous Metals. There are local events being …

How many moles of gas are in a PokĆ©mon Gastly?

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This year, PokĆ©mon Go is celebrating the Halloween season with extra spooky PokĆ©mon! As an avid fan of PokĆ©mon as well as a chemist, I wondered, ā€œIs there a connection between ghost PokĆ©mon and chemistry?ā€ With a little inspiration from last week's Mole Day, I was able to find one. (Mole Day is October 23 …