{"id":2074,"date":"2013-10-23T13:17:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T13:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/?p=423"},"modified":"2013-10-23T13:17:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T13:17:22","slug":"lets-celebrate-mole-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2013\/10\/23\/lets-celebrate-mole-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s celebrate Mole Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2013\/10\/images4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-425\" alt=\"images4\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2013\/10\/images4-300x167.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2013\/10\/images1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-426\" alt=\"images1\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2013\/10\/images1.jpg\" width=\"194\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2013\/10\/imgres2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-427\" alt=\"imgres2\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2013\/10\/imgres2.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"132\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2013\/10\/images3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-428\" alt=\"images3\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2013\/10\/images3.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>From Wikipedia: <b>Mole Day<\/b>\u00a0is an\u00a0<a title=\"Unofficial holiday\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unofficial_holiday\">unofficial holiday<\/a>\u00a0celebrated among chemists and chemistry students on October 23, between 6:02 AM and 6:02 PM,<sup id=\"cite_ref-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mole_Day#cite_note-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-ncw_2-0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mole_Day#cite_note-ncw-2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-3\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mole_Day#cite_note-3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0making the date 6:02 10\/23 in the American style of writing dates. The time and date are derived from\u00a0<a title=\"Avogadro's number\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Avogadro%27s_number\">Avogadro&#8217;s number<\/a>, which is approximately 6.02\u00d710<sup>23<\/sup>, defining the number of particles (atoms or molecules) in one<a title=\"Mole (unit)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mole_(unit)\">mole<\/a>\u00a0of substance, one of the seven base\u00a0<a title=\"SI\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SI\">SI<\/a>\u00a0units. Mole Day originated in an article in\u00a0<i>The Science Teacher<\/i>\u00a0in the early 1980s.<sup id=\"cite_ref-mole-history_4-0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mole_Day#cite_note-mole-history-4\">[4]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Inspired by this article, Maurice Oehler, now a retired\u00a0<a title=\"High school\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/High_school\">high school<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Chemistry\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chemistry\">chemistry<\/a>\u00a0teacher from\u00a0<a title=\"Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prairie_du_Chien,_Wisconsin\">Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin<\/a>, founded the National Mole Day Foundation (NMDF) on May 15, 1991.<sup id=\"cite_ref-mole-history_4-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mole_Day#cite_note-mole-history-4\">[4]<\/a><\/sup> Many high schools around the\u00a0<a title=\"United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\">United States<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Africa\">South Africa<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Australia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Australia\">Australia<\/a>\u00a0and in\u00a0<a title=\"Canada\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Canada\">Canada<\/a>\u00a0celebrate Mole Day as a way to get their students interested in chemistry, with various activities often related to chemistry or\u00a0<a title=\"Mole (unit)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mole_(unit)\">moles<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mole_Day\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mole_Day<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Wikipedia: Mole Day&nbsp;is an&nbsp;unofficial holiday&nbsp;celebrated among chemists and chemistry students on October 23, between 6:02 AM and 6:02 PM,[1][2][3]&nbsp;making the date 6:02 10\/23 in the American style of writing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}