How and Why Do Chemists Use Moles?

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  • Опубликовано: 22 окт 2024

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  • @ashishkumaraeolus
    @ashishkumaraeolus Год назад +20

    You are the best teacher. Trust me!

  • @TheFarmanimalfriend
    @TheFarmanimalfriend 10 месяцев назад +12

    I calculated the volume of a mole of 1 inch spheres. It was rather mind blowing. One side of a cube (a mole) of 1 inch spheres will extend from Capitola, CA to Chicago, IL The results were illustrative of how tiny atoms really are and how big, 10^23, really is.

    • @Earthstorm84
      @Earthstorm84 10 месяцев назад

      Are you sure you did the homework right? That distance you mentioned according to Google is 3500km = 3.5*10^8, in inches (your damn imperial system, you should really leave that behind...) Makes it around 1.4*10^8, so we are missing many many orders of magnitude...

    • @ivoivanov7407
      @ivoivanov7407 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@Earthstorm84 a cube with side 3.5e8 inch will have volume of about 3e25 inch

    • @Earthstorm84
      @Earthstorm84 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@ivoivanov7407 I missed the cube part I thought he was just lining up the molecule to make a distance 😄

    • @harikrishna69
      @harikrishna69 6 месяцев назад

      If we substitute the one inch sphere for a 40mm sphere, then a regulation table tennis ball (ping pong ball) is a convenient representation. So an avogardro number of table tennis balls would exceed the current annual production of balls multiplied by the approximate age of the earth.
      By many orders of magnitude.
      This would not be well received by the IOC or China.
      Such a shame.
      K.

  • @jonahansen
    @jonahansen 10 месяцев назад +4

    Very well done. Great approach to teaching the basics of the history of chemistry, and how it works.

  • @bangbang07
    @bangbang07 Год назад +5

    Other than Periodic Videos, your content is the only other chemistry channel that is fun to watch ❤🎉

  • @MukhtarMohamud-w3v
    @MukhtarMohamud-w3v 14 дней назад +1

    My best teacher

  • @davidfarnell
    @davidfarnell 2 года назад +14

    In the game Godville, my character has a pet “vengeful mole” that I named Avogadro. Another character had one that I named “Guaca.”

  • @krzysztofwos1856
    @krzysztofwos1856 10 месяцев назад +1

    Great video! The uncanny thing is that over the last few days, I've been thinking about Avogadro's number and wish I had understood this in high school, and "Bam!" RUclips algorithm suggests your video to me. Pretty wild. I haven't searched for it. Merely thought about it.

    • @jonahansen
      @jonahansen 10 месяцев назад

      Thought implantation...telepathy...algorithm/telepathy receiver...

  • @kevinpritchard3592
    @kevinpritchard3592 10 месяцев назад +1

    This has been a very educational video, thanks for explaining this.

  • @cursorychemistry
    @cursorychemistry Год назад +4

    Nice video, but I had to say the skit was pretty fun. Didn’t expect how the video ended! Bravo

  • @guenolelabey-guimard9824
    @guenolelabey-guimard9824 10 месяцев назад

    Thanks you for this such pedagogic video. It's wonderful to be able to understand the world around us trough this knowledge !

  • @trevordixon672
    @trevordixon672 9 месяцев назад +2

    I knew moles were involved, great film !

  • @steveholmes1736
    @steveholmes1736 Месяц назад

    My god that’s outstanding! Subscribed

  • @225rip
    @225rip 2 месяца назад

    Thanks for the detail.

  • @AppliedCryogenics
    @AppliedCryogenics 2 месяца назад

    Excellent opening skit!

  • @gabriele1052
    @gabriele1052 Год назад +1

    nice video, i almost got kinda lost with the sodium, calculation, cause we say Natrium, or cause i am a little untalented with the subject, but thanks to your and so many other nice videos, ill get it.

  • @nurulhasan3953
    @nurulhasan3953 11 месяцев назад

    As always, u amaze and amuse me. I'm SO SO into chemistry bcs of u.

  • @matveyshishov
    @matveyshishov 11 месяцев назад

    That's a perfect explanation, thank you!

  • @Eric-Marsh
    @Eric-Marsh Год назад +4

    This is the sort of thing that I had trouble with in school. Why does one mole of oxygen plus two hydrogen make two water? Where does the extra volume go? Energy?

    • @MusicalRaichu
      @MusicalRaichu 10 месяцев назад +5

      it doesn't make two volumes of liquid water, it makes two volumes of water vapour. it's because, assuming they're at the same temperature and pressure, the same number of molecules of gases occupy the same volume.
      2 litres of H2 and 1 litre of O2 turn into 2 litres of H2O. what stays the same is the total number of atoms. but they're arranged in fewer molecules, so they occupy a smaller volume. that assumes the pressure and temperature are maintained.

    • @Eric-Marsh
      @Eric-Marsh 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@MusicalRaichu thanks for the explanation

  • @lizblank3074
    @lizblank3074 4 месяца назад

    Love this!

  • @warrenoakes4521
    @warrenoakes4521 4 месяца назад

    Well explained, I’m a little closer thanks

  • @MDNQ-ud1ty
    @MDNQ-ud1ty 10 месяцев назад

    The key idea that seems to be left out is that in a gas the molecules are so spaced apart that effectively any molecule in a gas takes up the same proportionate amount of "space". E.g., a penny in a stadium and a quarter in a stadium both take up the same "space" if we are only comparing the stadium and how much it's space takes up in a convenient. This means that for gasses, for all practical purposes every (gas) molecule has the same size as every other and so we simplify everything down to pretending there is only one type of gas molecule. This then allows you to do a direct comparison among molecules because if they take up the same "volume" then you can assume they have the same number. This then lets you ignore the number and pretend you are just working with single molecules which lets you do stoichiometry(which the video does talk about. But one has to understand that the space around a molecule of hydrogen and a molecule of oxygen is the "same" space and can be treated as "point particles". Once one can do that then the number is directly related to the volume and one can use the volume to compare numbers(hence leading to stoichiometry). With enough measurements one could eventually use volume relationships to determine molecule relationships in various reactions and then deduce atomic relationships in molecules. Of course there is no reason to necessarily use volume which may be difficult to measure in some cases but transfer that to pressure calculations. Of course once one starts understanding how molecules compose in volume relationships then one starts to understand how they "react" and one can start to understand the molecular substructural relationships.

  • @alannolan3514
    @alannolan3514 7 месяцев назад

    It's the constant by which conservation of mass is maintained

  • @n20games52
    @n20games52 10 месяцев назад +1

    Great video - and I just loved the skit! Set the moles free! LOL!

  • @markopinteric
    @markopinteric 10 месяцев назад +7

    Fun fact. We in Europe measure rice in grams (instead of cups), just like if we were all chemists.

    • @andreabartsch
      @andreabartsch 10 месяцев назад +1

      Smart, not fun.
      Everyone knows how is so much accurate measuring something in weight than in volume. Even more when you are dealing with a solid.

    • @FelonyVideos
      @FelonyVideos 10 месяцев назад

      There are two types of countries... 😂

    • @markopinteric
      @markopinteric 10 месяцев назад

      @@FelonyVideos This myth was already debunked. NASA used SI units for Apollo missions.

  • @charlesmarquardt3755
    @charlesmarquardt3755 10 месяцев назад

    The term "mole" to mean a large number IS related to the small burrowing mammal . Moles (the small mammals) make piles due to their digging hence the saying " Mountains Out Of Mole Hills. I suspect the etymology you cited used the burrowing small mammal association with making piles . This might be an analogy to " How Many Angel's Can Dance On The Head Of A Pin ? " 😅

  • @user-md1ty8yj8h
    @user-md1ty8yj8h 5 месяцев назад

    You should make more videos.... 🎩 ❤❤❤

  • @ashishkhanduri1327
    @ashishkhanduri1327 10 месяцев назад +1

    This mole shit was troubling me for age... because of my illiterate chem teacher in my 9&10th grade.....how the hell they can be so dumb not to give this same example for starters and i was the brightest in my chem..... Thax mate for making mole go away from my back 😂

  • @elbersed
    @elbersed 10 месяцев назад +1

    Hmmm, I understand how you determine a mole of a molecule by weight, but clearly you can’t weigh out a mole of photons, how do you determine a mole of a massless particle?

  • @Earthstorm84
    @Earthstorm84 10 месяцев назад

    I have noticed in more than one video you avoid mentioning where the number seemengly come from... I understand the mole being the number if atoms in 12g of C12 us not the most accurate thing, but is there a reason in particular to avoid this definition? I was 'raised' in chemistry with this 😄

  • @jamesburrelljr.8561
    @jamesburrelljr.8561 10 месяцев назад

    most interesting this formula spills over into weather chemistry. Is it the basis of C.A.P.E.?

  • @manithgowdru
    @manithgowdru 16 часов назад

    Is that 23L or 22.4L

  • @grindupBaker
    @grindupBaker 10 месяцев назад

    Quite often a foreign-agent Chemist will introduce a Mole into their team pretending she's another Chemist he knows when she's really a physicist, and then she'll undermine their experiment at the crucial moment with a physics thing and disappear back to some physics lab. John Le Carre wrote several novels about this.

  • @MADHURESHKUMAR-e8v
    @MADHURESHKUMAR-e8v Год назад +1

    Hey best professor can you make a video teaching band gap or detailed look of semiconductors. Thank you for the effort for making such priceless videos .

  • @geeache1891
    @geeache1891 5 месяцев назад

    Volumes at standard pressure and temperature

  • @rajeevkumarsam5499
    @rajeevkumarsam5499 Год назад +1

    Nice explanation.. kindly upload lecture on reaction mechanism in organic chemistry

  • @johnsavard7583
    @johnsavard7583 10 месяцев назад

    When chemists mix chemicals, the molecules they're trying to make hava a certain number of each kind of atom. So you need to mix two molecules of this with one molecule of that, and so on. So you want to know a weight of each kind of chemical that's proportional to the number of molecules in it. Surely that's really simple.

  • @gabriele1052
    @gabriele1052 Год назад +2

    i like ur little jokes, cute so nice and english.😜

  • @Indievictor
    @Indievictor 11 месяцев назад

    13:37 Water* ❤

  • @gmotionedc5412
    @gmotionedc5412 11 месяцев назад

    Since it’s just a number to scale by why not make it a simpler number?

  • @Buddha-Einstein
    @Buddha-Einstein 9 месяцев назад

    I had a question - Why do we even need the concept of a mole? We can just make a chart of number of atoms per gram of every element and use that as an index? What is benefit of EVEN needing the mole or having the avogadros number?

    • @DrDeuteron
      @DrDeuteron 8 месяцев назад

      I'd say it's why Ohm Law, V=IR, isn't Seimen's Law V = I/G. (G is conductance). Using atoms per gram involves inverse mass per atom and no one want's that.
      Also: N_A sets the scale from microscopic to macroscopic, which is nice. Just like "c" sets the speed scale for Galileo vs Einstein, hbar sets the action scale for classical vs quantum, G (/c^4) sets the scale for Newton vs Einstein, and finally k_B sets the scale at which thermodynamics works (e.g. exact knowledge of phase space vs macroscopic averages).

    • @Buddha-Einstein
      @Buddha-Einstein 8 месяцев назад

      @@DrDeuteron Hmm, makes sense. Its not so much science, but more about convenience then. I guess THAT should be highlighted when it is taught in school, so we know why AN is a benchmark. I guess it is like light year, it gives an idea of not just distance but time as well and convenient for extremely large distances.

  • @jeremiahreilly9739
    @jeremiahreilly9739 10 месяцев назад +1

    ★★★★★ You are a stellar educator. If you only had a sense of humour…

  • @dibaldgyfm9933
    @dibaldgyfm9933 Месяц назад

    I got headache when you say 2 units of water and add "vapor" in writing. Water vapor, at temperature 0⁰C isn't something I can grasp easily, ig makes me think ice-water, Arctis, how can I avoid that vapor will condense? And such.
    🤔➕️🔜↪️⏩️⚡️😇

  • @snirest
    @snirest Год назад +2

    Should I wash the 752 grains of rice separately before I cook them individually in very tiny pots? 😅

    • @ThreeTwentysix
      @ThreeTwentysix  Год назад +2

      No, you can rinse them together.
      And then separate them into tiny pots with tweezers.

    • @snirest
      @snirest Год назад +1

      @@ThreeTwentysix
      😃

    • @fukpoeslaw3613
      @fukpoeslaw3613 10 месяцев назад

      Depends on how many molecules of water you are going to use to cook them in, I always eyeball about 602214000000000000000 molecules per grain.

    • @jackhinkley6162
      @jackhinkley6162 9 месяцев назад

      which is 18g of H20 per grain or 18 ml per grain which the chemist-chef would say is a bit much as the dish of rice would be soggy or does each grain of rice contain 6.02214x10exp 23 molecules of stuff then we have a 1:1 ratio. @@fukpoeslaw3613

  • @dennisdrury-rg8ms
    @dennisdrury-rg8ms 10 месяцев назад

    Does this explain the two moles of water? 2H2 + 2O2 = 2H20

    • @janusprime5693
      @janusprime5693 10 месяцев назад

      There isn't even a question there, so what's there to explain lol

  • @FelonyVideos
    @FelonyVideos 10 месяцев назад

    I can easily imagine a million of something. A cube of 100 things on each edge.
    But i also regularly use the term "brazillian". 😂

  • @politicalfoolishness7491
    @politicalfoolishness7491 10 месяцев назад +1

    People want to convert moles to liters but they are incorrect. Moles come in LITTERS. 🤣

  • @useruser400
    @useruser400 10 месяцев назад

    They use moles to spy on chemical reactions. That’s all I learned in my college Chem 101 class.

  • @ricardovencio
    @ricardovencio 9 месяцев назад

    At t=8:37 he said 23 l and suggested a small fish tank. There is something fishy here...

  • @dovbarleib3256
    @dovbarleib3256 10 месяцев назад

    A mole is needed to convert the weights of atoms or molecules in amus to their conglomerate weight in grams.... End of explanation.
    If it were not for the Chemistry of Gasses, we might not have 10% of the Understanding of reality that we have today.

  • @gazsibb
    @gazsibb 10 месяцев назад +1

    ...bit of an aside.
    Medics love their latin too.
    So a skin mole is a pile of keratinocytes?🤔

  • @WAMTAT
    @WAMTAT 11 месяцев назад +1

    I don't mean to alarm you, but i think there might be mole in your lab.

  • @coolloser85
    @coolloser85 Месяц назад

    Lmao had me dying. You fiend. The moles have poor eyesight, it'll take them forever

  • @Tom-gv2eo
    @Tom-gv2eo 10 месяцев назад

    This isnt for beginners! - never heard of Zealites. I endured a "chemistry education - 1959 _- 1964, & passd O level GCE . . Why break down Butane - a useful industrial gas, into Methane - a nuisance greenhouse gas? You lost me when talkin about Sulphites!

  • @gobstoppa1633
    @gobstoppa1633 10 месяцев назад

    NO I CARNT IMAGINE A MILLION MOLECULES BETWEEN YOR FINGERS BUT IMAGINING INFINITY IS EASY,

  • @geoffgeoff143
    @geoffgeoff143 6 месяцев назад

    They work cheap

  • @Onequietvoice
    @Onequietvoice 10 месяцев назад

    Is it because they are cute and furry and catch worms?

  • @MusicalRaichu
    @MusicalRaichu 10 месяцев назад

    why not use them, since biologists use rats and physicists use cats?

  • @raymondfrye5017
    @raymondfrye5017 10 месяцев назад +1

    The concept was formulated by Dr. Mohl or mol,...not "mole"!!!

    • @notconnected3815
      @notconnected3815 10 месяцев назад

      And one mol-ecule is a fraction of a mol, right?
      Like a millimeter is a fraction of a meter ...

    • @raymondfrye5017
      @raymondfrye5017 10 месяцев назад

      @@notconnected3815 Okay, so maybe that is the origin of the name.