Avogadro. You're thinking of either a fruit or a Spanish lawyer.....
UtherSRG
On 5/17/05, [email protected] [email protected] wrote:
Speaking of explosives, should we talk of chemical measures in terms of moles (units consisting of a certain number of molecules, the number of which has slipped my mind at this moment)?
You're thinking of Avocado's Number, named after the famous lawyer.
Two avocados is a yotta molecules (if you interpret "yotta" in the "binary prefix" sense of 2^80 rather than 10^24).
A mole is a small burrowing animal in the family Talpidae, and their dentition does include molars.
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