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I watched a video
And now I feel like an idiot
They said a very large number
Was an avocado number
This many apples of origins
Would wait to be one lamb
They said twelve barb ins
Was twelve dimes of avocados value in
They said a hole of iron
would weigh more than 50 holes of hydrogen
Now dear reader
I, confused as you here,
Wish for you to tell me
The number described for thee
Hint:
Well you can guess by now that it's more or less horribly misspelled.
It's:
Avogadro's number, $6.022\times10^{23}$
I watched a video
And now I feel like an idiot
As best I can tell, this is just an intro with no other hints.
They said a very large number
Was an avocado number
The first misspelling of "Avogadro": avocado; it also happens to be a very large number.
This many apples of origins Would wait to be one lamb
As ffao points out, one mol of hydrogen ("this many atoms of hydrogen") would be one gram.
They said twelve barb ins Was twelve dimes of avocados value in
Carbon-12 is the basis for the unit of mols, so 12 mols of carbon (144 grams) has 12 times Avogadro's number of atoms.
They said a hole of iron would weigh more than 50 holes of hydrogen
Substitution of "hole" for "mole" makes this stanza true.
Now dear reader
I, confused as you here,
Wish for you to tell me
The number described for thee
As best I can tell, this is simply an outro with no other hints.
