Re: SI Units

[PHRP@FHSUVM.FHSU.EDU (Roger A. Pruitt)]

It seems to me that this problem of gram-mole and kilogram-mole is cleared
up if one thinks of a mole as a number of things--namely Avogadro's number
of things--rather than as a mass or volume of stuff.

Roger Pruitt

>        This discussion of mhos and siemens bring to mind a question I have
> about SI units. Is the mole used and is it the gram-mole, i.e. is there such
> a thing as the kilogram-mole? My text uses gram-moles and it really throws
> the students as their IS calculations are off by a factor of one thousand if
> they are not careful with their units.
>
>
> Gary Karshner
>
> St. Mary's University
> San Antonio, Texas
> KARSHNER@STMARYTX.EDU