Julissa Garcia Leon
Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy
A mole is a scientific unit developed by chemist that measures large quantities of very small things, such as atoms, molecules, and other particles. There are three types of molar conversions; moles to particles or particles to moles, moles to mass or mass to moles, and moles to volume or volume to moles. The number of units in a mole is 6.02 × 1023. This number is called Avogadro’s number in honour of Amedeo Avogadro. Full name, Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro was an Italian physicist, born in Italy on August 9, 1776. Avogadro graduated in law at the age of 31. He then dedicated himself to physics and mathematics and soon after starting teaching at a high school. In 1811, he published an article that contained his hypothesis. Later in 1820, he became a professor at a university, but lost his job in 1823 due to his involvement in the revolutionary movement. The University called him back in 1833 and taught for another twenty years. …show more content…
To find moles to grams, one would have to use the starting unit, which is grams and ending point, which would be moles and the compound. Next step would be to plug in numbers and do the calculation. Example using oxygen: 68 grams × (1 mole O/ 16 g) = 4.25 moles. Finding grams to moles in technically the same thing, one would simply switch the starting and ending points, just like one would do with volume and particles. Molar masses are almost always expressed as g/mol. A mole is simply a unit of measurement, 6.02 ×1023 of anything. Like all units, a mole has to be based on something reproducible. Moles were originally created to find the amount of particles per say in sugar, but moles can also be used for bigger objects such as basketballs, or smaller ones like skittles. Moles can be used essentially to measure