Re: Re: mole units
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- Subject: [mg61637] Re: [mg60943] Re: [mg60876] mole units
- From: Chris Chiasson <chris.chiasson at gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 03:39:18 -0400 (EDT)
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Having had some time away from the issue, I believe that Mathematica's way of handling Mole is correct. I guess I just felt betrayed because I rely on Mathematica's units as a form of error checking for my equations. On 10/4/05, Jose Luis Gomez <jose.luis.gomez at itesm.mx> wrote: > 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 > > -- http://chrischiasson.com/contact/chris_chiasson
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- From: "Jose Luis Gomez" <jose.luis.gomez@itesm.mx>
- Re: mole units