Need Ideas for School Project Options

[The Raven]

Yea, so i'm in class on a laptop trying to come up with a creative project about moles (avogadro's number, not the animal) and no one in my group likes any of my suggestions. Ya;ll got any?

[ORCACommander]

your going to have to explain the moles to me so I can give you any sounds advice.

[Aro]

Ok, You lost me when you said ''Not the animal'' :confused:

[confactor]

are you talking about moles in reference to chemistry
or is it specifically a unit of mathematics?

[El_Serpiente]

Oh noes! Not moles!

@Confactor - I think it is the chemistry one. Unless raven is talking about the skin condition...

[The Raven]

No, im talking about the "chemistry mole"

[ORCACommander]

it still needs explaining.

[The Raven]

it still needs explaining.

If it need explaining past what i've already said, then you don't know enough about it to be able to help me.

[Mr. Pokey]

What would your school want you to come up with an interesting topic about moles? There really is nothing interesting about them. Oh, and moles are the basic quantitative unit in chemistry for measuring amounts of chemicals.
All you can really do is measure stuff with them, really...
I suppose you could show the amount of certain chemicals that a mole would look like in real life. Or what a mole of a certain chemical would do to a person, or how huge the reaction would be when a mole of certain Alkali metals react with water compared with the usual amount used. (obviously you'd have to theorise).
That's all I can think of, sorry.

[cdmt]

You could put together a skit where the participants would discover the utility of the mole. The importance of the mole is that it gives us a unit of measure that allows us to use simple equations to represent chemical reactions. Remember to make it funny.

This post has been edited by cdmt: Jan 13 2007, 07:17 PM

[Team Black]

darn..i used to know all that stuf, 3 years ago was my last chemistry class..

a "mole" is kind of like pi, in that it represents a number.

1 mole is [rounded to?] 6.08x10^28

you use this number to multiply by the protons or something to find the atomic weight
...I can't say for certain, I forgot exactly what you do with moles.

we need Clazzy, he can tell us for certain

[The Raven]

Ya'll are missing the point. I know what it is, i just need ideas on what to do a project on about it. Its not supposed to be a serious project, just a silly, creative one.

[Mr. Pokey]

I gave ideas
But they were serious.
You're think that a mole is 6.022 x 10^23 particles. This is Avogadro's number.

[Team Black]

well how about a comparison like:
"If you had 6.08x10^23 M&M's the pile would be yay high..."

"if you were to count every second, it would take you yay long to get to 1 mole..."