does anyone know the origin of "the mole" in chemistry?
2006-11-21 07:05:31 · 9 answers · asked by tracklurver09 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
i just need to know why/who started using that word MOLE?
2006-11-21 07:13:11 · update #1
The unit Mole comes from the word molecule, to be specific, the German word Molekül. first coined by Wilhelm Ostald of Germany in 1902.
2006-11-21 07:15:49 · answer #1 · answered by jason e 2 · 1⤊ 6⤋
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2016-05-16 05:57:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A mole is the quantity of anything that has the same number of particles found in 12.000 grams of carbon-12. That number of particles is Avogadro's Number, which is roughly 6.02x1023. A mole of carbon atoms is 6.02x1023 carbon atoms. A mole of chemistry teachers is 6.02x1023 chemistry teachers. It's a lot easier to write the word 'mole' than to write '6.02x1023' anytime you want to refer to a large number of things! Basically, that's why this particular unit was invented.
2006-11-21 07:10:34 · answer #3 · answered by gisman22 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The word molecule means little mole or pile of material.
2006-11-21 07:10:22 · answer #4 · answered by science teacher 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The English word mole comes from the German word "Mol", short for "Molekulargewicht" meaning "molecular weight". This is thought to have come from the French word "moléculaire" meaning "molecule".
The Latin root is "molecula" a diminitive for the word "moles" meaning "mass".
The word "mole" is used when we're talking about numbers of atoms and molecules. For extra background, see the site below:
2006-11-21 07:18:00 · answer #5 · answered by Richard 7 · 12⤊ 1⤋
shortened from "molecular". It is a unit of molecular weight. It refers to the amount of pure substance that contains the same number of elementary entities as there are atoms in 12 grams of the isotope Carbon 12
2006-11-21 07:08:57 · answer #6 · answered by MOM KNOWS EVERYTHING 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The name comes from the abbreviation of molecule, that it also comes from the Latin moles "mass, massive structure".
See this link for more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole_%28unit%29#History
2006-11-21 07:11:40 · answer #7 · answered by welch_wil 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-01 23:35:15 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ostwald did it!
2006-11-21 07:16:39 · answer #9 · answered by Kes 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋