# Celebrate International Mole Day! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 19, 1999, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrate-international-mole-day/9668 "1999-10-19T22:40:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 1999, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrate-international-mole-day/9668/1 "1999-10-19T22:40:00Z")
Yep, we’re coming up on International Mole Day! Mole Day will be celebrated on October 23rd, from 6:02 am to 6:02 pm. (The reasons for that will become clear in a moment.) This day honors Amadeo Avogadro and his constant, 6.022 x 10^23. The Mole is a specific measure of atoms, such that there are 6.022 x 10^23 atoms in a mole. As a Chemistry student, I am celebrating on Friday the 22nd. I have to make a mole (a small, furry stuffed creature) for a test grade, and I’m also making Chicken Molé (get it? Haha!) for 3 assignment grades - this will raise my final grade 6 points (for example, go from a 91 to a 97) . So… what are YOU doing for Mole Day? * * * _ **SanibelMan** _ – The Man From Sanibel “I like Florida; everything is in the eighties. The temperatures, the ages, and the IQs.” – George Carlin ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 1999, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrate-international-mole-day/9668/2 "1999-10-20T00:13:00Z")
I picked at an annoying mole once… Just pissed the critter of even more… * * * Yer pal, Satan ---
**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 1999, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrate-international-mole-day/9668/3 "1999-10-20T00:56:00Z")
Supposedly you can fit avagadros number on a licence plate somehow, how would you show an exponent? I have somewhat less tha Avagadro’s number of moles in my back yard. ---
**Author:** ![HeadlessCow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/db5fbb/32.png) [@HeadlessCow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeadlessCow)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 1999, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrate-international-mole-day/9668/4 "1999-10-20T04:24:00Z")
Sanibel, do you by any chance have a chem. teacher named Muller? ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 1999, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrate-international-mole-day/9668/5 "1999-10-20T15:38:00Z")
Nope. My chem teacher is Lewton. Why? * * * _ **SanibelMan** _ – The Man From Sanibel “I like Florida; everything is in the eighties. The temperatures, the ages, and the IQs.” – George Carlin ---
**Author:** ![CatInHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@CatInHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatInHat)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 1999, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrate-international-mole-day/9668/6 "1999-10-20T15:48:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Supposedly you can fit avagadros number on a licence plate somehow, how would you show an exponent? 6E23 * * * The Cat In The Hat ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 1999, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrate-international-mole-day/9668/7 "1999-10-20T16:17:00Z")
Does playing Whack-A-Mole count, or is that considered blasphemous? ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 1999, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrate-international-mole-day/9668/8 "1999-10-20T16:57:00Z")
Isaac Asimov once said that there are two ways to identify a chemist: 1. Have him pronounce “unionized” 2. Ask him, “Define a mole.” (Be sure to shut him up after the first half hour.) ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 1999, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrate-international-mole-day/9668/9 "1999-10-21T05:15:00Z")
I plan to dedicate the nasty, black hair that grows out of my mole to chemists around the world. Please, don’t thank me. It’s my pleasure. * * * Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, dogs are from Pluto. - Anonymous ---
**Author:** ![neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ab097/32.png) [@neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neuro-trash_grrrl)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 1999, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrate-international-mole-day/9668/10 "1999-10-21T16:08:00Z")
Well, I plan to make guaca-mole, using 6.022 “avocadros”… * * * Modest? You bet I’m modest! I am the queen of modesty!