• Question: what is your joke all about, i dont get it... : /

    Asked by emilyhannahugs to Joseph on 14 Jun 2010 in Categories: . This question was also asked by chizhangonionchrisps.
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      Joseph Cook answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      My joke is a bit silly, but I like it. In science, a ‘mole’ is a number – 6.022 x 10^23. This is a big number – written out in full, it is 60,220,000,000,000,000,000,000. This is the number of atoms of carbon in 12 grams of pure carbon. It’s useful to do calculations in terms of moles rather than atoms because atoms are so tiny and there are loads of them, even in tiny things. My joke is a pun based on the fact that guacamole, a tasty food containing avocados, has the word ‘mole’ in it. You’ll probably cover this in science within the next couple of years – moles that is, not guacamole!

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