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Happy Mole Day from the CSN! This is our third annual post for Mole Day (check out the posts for 2014 and 2015), so it is starting to become a tradition now. In this post, I will show you an example of a real pen-and-paper calculation involving moles that I do sometimes in my work as …
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In my last post, I told you about how scientists measure amazingly cool things that can be vastly different in size, like elementary particles or very distant dwarf planets and their moons. Thinking about all the units to describe length got me thinking again (uh oh)... How do scientists know that the nanometer they measure …
Continue reading "What’s in a Unit Anyway? Part 2: When is a Kilogram Not a Kilogram?"
If you’re like me, you often find yourself thinking about random things. For example, just the other day I was thinking to myself, “what’s the diameter of a gold nanoparticle* in light years**?” Unit conversions have been a thorn in my side for as long as I can remember, so I was pleased to discover …
Continue reading "What’s in a Unit Anyway? Part 1: From Protons to Galaxies"
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