• Question: What is Guacomole?

    Asked by 883heak36 to Valerie on 6 Nov 2017.
    • Photo: Valerie Bentivegna

      Valerie Bentivegna answered on 6 Nov 2017:

      It’s a really lame play on words:

      “Guacamole” (pronounced ɡwakamolay) a dip sauce for nacho’s made from avocados.

      A “mole” is a unit of measurement commonly used in chemistry to measure atoms and molecules. One mole of dioxygen (O2) for example, is about 6.022×10^23 of dioxygen molecules (so a whole lot).

      The number 6.022×1023 mol−1 is called “Avogadro’s number”, which sounds a bit like “Avocado’s number” because guacamole is made from avocados.

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