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How does a sober, religious, son of a noble
And an Italian, dropped in the middle of a forgotten Kingdom in the family of Piedmont Sardinia,
In luxury, grow up to be a mathematician and physician?
The Atomic molar founding Father from a wealthy father
Got a lot farther by thinking a mole harder
By being a mole smarter By being a self-starter
By twenty, he graduated as a positive philosopher
And in 1811 while people couldn’t measure their elements anyway
He published an Essay on Determining the Relative Masses of the Elementary Molecules of Bodies and the Proportions by Which They Enter These Combinations
-what the heck man?
-yeah who names a paper that?
-come on, amedeo
Then a revelation came, Avogadro's number it was named
Our man thought of a figure, A large number he obtained
put a pencil to his temple, a miracle occurred
And he wrote 6.022 times 10 to the twenty third
Well, the word got around, they paid no attention to his fame man
It was the number of molecules in a mole man
He lost his chair at the University of Turin, but so far he had came!
But 10th Chemistry will still know your name
What’s your name, man?
Amedeo Avogadro
My name is Amedeo Avogadro
And there’s a mole of things I haven’t done
But just calculate, just calculate.
His law was, equal volumes of all gases, have the same number of molecules
For a given mass of an ideal gas, the volume and moles
are proportional if the temperature and pressure are constant.
So that’s his law but what is his con-stant?
Moles are represented, by the symbol N sub A
It's one of the seven SI bases, you can have a mole of anythang
It’s the count of atoms in twelve grams of carbon-twelve
It can be used to convert any compound into atoms, it never fails
You got to get the molar mass for the compound you want ta compute
Take the grams of the sample, divide by the molar mass
Then multiply, multiply, by the avogadro number
Multiply ‘again by the number of molecules that there were
That’s the atoms in the compound, do you concur?
Thanks to Avogadro you can calculate the number of atoms in a sample of a compound, have you heard?
Six point O two ten to the twenty third
Six point O two ten to the twenty third
Six point O two ten to the twenty third
Six point O two ten to the twenty third
Six point O two ten to the twenty third
That’s a Mole
Amedeo Avogadro
(Amedeo Avogadro)
They named a big number after you
(They named a big number after you)
When you're calculating with moles
Gotta make sure you take your time
Oh, Amedeo Avogadro
When Scientists use the mole
Will they know the laws you gave?
Will they know contributions you made?
Chemistry will never be the same, oh
New scientists develop new laws
See if you can prove them
Another concept becomes a math problem
Gonna be in textbooks, on tests, so students can solve ‘em.
We learned ‘bout him
Me, I taught ‘bout him
Me, I don’t know him
Me, -do you guys wanna go get food?
And me, I’m the CENSORED fool that flunked the test
There’s a mole of things I haven’t done
But just calculate
What’s your name, man?
Amedeo Avogadro
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