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When wildlife biologists talk about moles, they’re usually referring to the tiny, gray rodents that dig underground to find delicious earthworms. But when chemists talk about moles, they’re usually referring to a scientific term. The term ‘mole’ represents a number, in the same way the word ‘dozen’ represents 12 of something. In this case, one mole represents the enormous (and slightly strange) number, 6.02 x 1023.
This is a huge number! To help you and any wildlife biologists reading this module get a sense of just how many things are in one mole, we can use an analogy with another small, gray rodent: the gray squirrel (Figure 1). One gray squirrel weighs roughly 500 grams, or as much as a hardback book. One dozen gray squirrels weigh about 6,000 grams, or a little more than a medium-sized bowling ball. And one mole of gray squirrels weighs 301,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 grams—more than four times the mass of the moon!
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