Week 20 Blog Reflection

Unfortunately, I missed out biggest lab this week but I have been debriefed on it and now think I have a full understanding of it. We took different hardware materials and measured their weights. We use the lightest substance as a denominator for other numbers to provide for even comparison of all substances. We knew a relative weight for each one. We also called 6 pieces of each thing a "Quinn" so we'd have a unit we could use to identify these. This taught us that atoms are not all the same size and also gave us a grip on what the newly introduced term a "mole" is. We know they're a group of particles that add up to a certain number. It's just that the magnitude of the concept is kind of hard to grasp. It's a really big idea but I think as we discuss it more, it'll come easier. The math problems involving moles though, I do understand. It's easy to be able to put them into a formula and grasp it in that way. Below is a link to my notes on moles and a picture from my notes telling how I think a mole math problem works.

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s249/sh/c2bb5fd6-90b9-485b-8f86-a4f5930107c2/36612d3e8b6b2ca6a2290c98656c5c9e