What is special on 23 oct?

Celebrated by chemists annually from 6.02 am to 6.02 pm on October 23rd, Mole Day commemorates Avogadro’s number (6.022 x 1023), which is the number of atoms in exactly 12 grams of carbon-12 (one mole).

What number day of the year is october 23?

296th day
October 23 is the 296th day of the year (297th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 69 days remain until the end of the year.

Who came up with Mole Day?

Maurice Oehler
Overview. Mole Day originated in an article in The Science Teacher in the early 1980s. Inspired by this article, Maurice Oehler, a high school chemistry teacher from Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, founded the National Mole Day Foundation (NMDF) on May 15, 1991.

Which year is chemistry year?

2011
The year 2011, now being celebrated as the International Year of Chemistry, also provides the opportunity to celebrate the contributions of women to science on the one-hundredth anniversary of the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Maria Sklodowska-Curie.

Is 23rd October Scorpio or Libra?

Libra (September 23 – October 22) Scorpio (October 23 – November 21) Sagittarius (November 22 – December 21) Capricorn (December 22 – January 19)

When was Mole Day first started and why?

The Mole Day was created around the 1980s after an article appeared in The Science Teacher. As the article grabbed attention, a retired high school chemistry teacher, identified as Maurice Oehler from Wisconsin, USA, drew inspiration from it and founded the National Mole Day Foundation on 15 May, 1991.

How was 1 mole found?

It is named after the 19th-century Italian physicist Amedeo Avogadro, who found that under the same temperature and pressure, two gases with the same volume have the same number of molecules. It was the French physicist Jean Perrin who in the early 20th century dubbed the amount of units in a mole as Avogadro’s number.

What is BSc chemistry course?

BSc Chemistry focuses on the study of various branches of chemistry such as Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry and Analytical Chemistry along with elective subjects like Analytical methods in Chemistry, Polymer Chemistry and Industrial Chemicals and Environment.