Week 20 Reflection: Week of the Mole!

Happy sunday! It's ChemTeam  Reflection Time! Instead of  my normal blogging format ( which i learned is not a good grade on the new grading scale) I wanna focus on the principal we focusedo n the last wekk before break : The Mole!. I'm not  talkign about the creatures that dig in the ground i mean the magical number that  is alo called Avagadro's Number ( for the scientist who kickstarted reasearch that later lead to the discovery of the mole) is  6.022 times  10 to the 23rd power! This number is a specific number of particles so 1 mole of ANY Substance has 6.022 times  10  to the 23rd power  particles within it. In class we calculated that there arent even 1 mole of living cells on earth! And also  there  has not even been one mole of rice produced yet!And if there was 1 mole of sand on earth, every inch of the surface would have 75 meters of sand on top of it! Molar mass is how many moles are  within a certain weight of a substance expressed by the formula: G/ 1MOL.

Having been so highly interested in this new concept, I went hope and told my parents the more interesting facts i learned about it, as they already knew what a mole was. In fact my mom said they had T-shirts from their chemisty class in high school that had Moles on them, the furry ones but it was a paly on words! I did find a picture of my father in his Mole shirt but unfortunately  My uncle  had decided to wear scary short 80's shorts in the picture so it is unfit for the internet! I wanted to understand Moles further so i went onto the internet and found a video i found quite helpful, basically summing up out lesson on friday!

In the Video  the speaker explains that the  number of Atoms of 1 mole of ANY Element has 6.022 time 10 to the 23rd atoms. Another interesting point the speaker made  was that if you have1 mole of NaCl the Molar weight  is the molar weight of Na and the weight of Cl  TOGETHER! I thought that was really helpful and interesting! I'm really excited to use moles in chemistry now!