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Re: mole units

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• Subject: [mg60943] Re: [mg60876] mole units
• From: "Jose Luis Gomez" <jose.luis.gomez at itesm.mx>
• Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 04:16:45 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi Chris, as far as I remember, it is CORRECT that Mole is adimensional,
saying "a Mole of atoms" is similar to saying "a dozen of atoms", a Mole is
a very important number in Chemistry, but you could say "a Mole of cars", or
"a Mole of computers", just like you can say "a dozen of computers". The
difference is that "dozen" is a useful number in every-day life and "Mole"
is a useful number in Chemistry. 

Regards!
José Luis
http://homepage.cem.itesm.mx/lgomez/
 

-----Mensaje original-----
De: Chris Chiasson [mailto:chris.chiasson at gmail.com] 
Enviado el: Sábado, 01 de Octubre de 2005 01:56 a.m.
Para: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Asunto: [mg60876] mole units

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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