Apparently, though unproven, at 00:14 on Monday 09 May 2011, john did opine 
thusly:

> Great widgets. Not sure what a Molar Mass Calculator does? Perhaps
> weighs your teeth??

:-)

"Molar" as in the adjective describing "mole" as in "quantity of matter" as in 
"some gigantic number of identical atoms (or maybe it's molecules)". It's a 
very useful measure of "some quantity of stuff".

IIRC the gigantic number is Avogadro's number, on the order of 10^124. So one 
mole of hydrogen would be the amount of hydrogen containing that number of 
hydrogen atoms (or maybe it's molecules. Whatever.)


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