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Re: mole units

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  • Subject: [mg60897] Re: [mg60876] mole units
  • From: Yasvir Tesiram <tesiramy at omrf.ouhsc.edu>
  • Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 01:54:48 -0400 (EDT)
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G'day,
Looks like its defined as Avogadros number of Molecules. What's the 
problem?
Yas

On Sat, 1 Oct 2005, Chris Chiasson wrote:

> Hey all, remember that thread about making a FundamentalSI function?
> Well, I was using it and noticed that it had taken away the Mole
> "unit" from some of my equations. I then tried:
> Convert[Mole,1]
> Interestingly, the result is a number (a special one, obviously), not
> an error. Mathematica is essentially treating mols as dimensionless
> numbers, like Milli Kilo, etc. Personally, I think this behavior is
> bad. What do you think?
> --
> Chris Chiasson
> http://chrischiasson.com/contact/chris_chiasson
>


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