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Date:         Sun, 5 Apr 2009 17:53:42 -0300
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: Learning Electricity Part Two
Comments: To: Chris S <szpejankowski@gmail.com>
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At 06:49 PM 4/5/2009, Chris S wrote:
>I wonder if it is any coincidence that one coulomb, 6.02 x 10^23, is
>the same number that's used to calculate the molecular mass on the
>periodic table?


The particular coincidence involved is that I quoted the wrong
constant...Avogadro's number of electrons is actually an obsolete
unit called the faraday, and the coulomb is a few per cent
larger.  As to the underlying physics, I don't know but I would be
completely unsurprised to find there was a connection.


<blush>
d


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