1. A Mole is a Unit Song by Michael Offut Copyright 1988

2. A mole is an animal that burrows in the ground

3. Or a spot on your chin that you gotta shave around

4. But there's another kind of mole of interest to me,

5. That's the kind of mole they use in Chemistry

6. A mole is a unit,

7. or have you heard,

8. Containing six times ten to the twenty-third

9. That’s a six with twenty-three zeros at the end 60000000000 0000000000 000

10. Much too big a number to comprehend

11. Say you had a mole of pennies to distribute 'round the world, Give to each of the five million grownups, boys, and girls,

12. There wouldn't be a single soul down and out of luck, 'Cause everybody in the world would get a trillion bucks

13. Or say you had a mole of paper and stacked it toward the sky, Paper's awful thin, but that pile would get so high

14. It‘d reach up into outer space, in fact I think you'd find It'd go up to the moon and back, eighty billion times.

15. A mole is a unit,

16. or have you heard,

17. Containing six times ten to the twenty-third

18. That’s a six with twenty-three zeros at the end 60000000000 0000000000 000

19. Much too big a number to comprehend

20. Suppose a mole of marshmallows fell upon the planet, Over each square inch of land and sea, think that you could stand it?

21. That layer would be twelve miles high and of course block out the sun, We're talking close to five million trillion tons

22. Well, maybe we could save ourselves if we all started eatin' One marshmallow each second, not two 'cause that'd be cheatin'

23. With five billion people munching, how long do you think it'd take? Forty million years--and that's without a bathroom break

24. A mole is a unit,

25. or have you heard,

26. Containing six times ten to the twenty-third

27. That’s a six with twenty-three zeros at the end 60000000000 0000000000 000

28. Much too big a number to comprehend

29. But say you had a mole of atoms, would the pile be immense, Should I say the answer now, or leave you in suspense?

30. Well, atoms are so very, very small, you understand

31. You could hold a mole of atoms in the palm of your hand

32. So shake a little sugar in the middle of your palm Now you don't want to spill it, so try and stay calm

33. You hardly can imagine and barely realize, There're more atoms in that sugar than stars up in the sky.

34. A mole is a unit,

35. or have you heard,

36. Containing six times ten to the twenty-third

37. That’s a six with twenty-three zeros at the end 60000000000 0000000000 000

38. Much too big a number to comprehend