{"id":242,"date":"2011-10-20T21:50:26","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T21:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/test\/?p=242"},"modified":"2017-12-04T21:51:59","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T21:51:59","slug":"happy-mole-day-october-23rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/test\/2011\/10\/20\/happy-mole-day-october-23rd\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Mole Day! (October 23rd)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The University of Iowa Sciences Library would like to wish you a Happy Mole Day! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mole Day is traditionally observed by admirers of chemistry worldwide on October 23<sup>rd<\/sup>, from 6:02am to 6:02pm.\u00a0 The purpose of the day is to generate enthusiasm and interest in chemistry, and to commemorate the discovery of <strong>Avogadro\u2019s Number,<\/strong> which is approximately <strong>6.02 x 10^23<\/strong>. \u00b9<\/p>\n<p>Amadeo Avogadro (1776-1858) was an Italian physicist whose hypotheses contributed to the discovery of the ideal gas law, and is credited with discovering the mole, which is a basic measuring unit in chemistry.\u00a0 One mole of a substance contains Avogadro\u2019s number of molecules or atoms of that substance. \u00b9<\/p>\n<p>Avogadro\u2019s ideas were largely unrecognized during his lifetime.\u00a0 They became more well-known after his death when Stanislao Cannizzaro argued for their acceptance in 1860. \u00b2<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=avogadro\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both\"><strong>Information in this blog post comes from the following sources:<\/strong>\u00b9 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moleday.org\/\">http:\/\/www.moleday.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00b2 <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceworld.wolfram.com\/biography\/Avogadro.html\">http:\/\/scienceworld.wolfram.com\/biography\/Avogadro.html<\/a>, courtesy of Eric W. Weisstein<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=avogadro\">\u00a0http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=avogadro<\/a> (Avogadro portrait image source)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2009\/06\/happy-mole-day.php\">http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2009\/06\/happy-mole-day.php<\/a> (Mole portrait image source)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Iowa Sciences Library would like to wish you a Happy Mole Day! Mole Day is traditionally observed by admirers of chemistry worldwide on October 23rd, from 6:02am to 6:02pm.\u00a0 The purpose of the day is to generate enthusiasm and interest in chemistry, and to commemorate the discovery of Avogadro\u2019s Number, which is<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/test\/2011\/10\/20\/happy-mole-day-october-23rd\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Happy Mole Day! (October 23rd)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1250,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/1250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}