The Great Chemistry Notation Divide

The Great Chemistry Notation Divide
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The chemistry crowd goes wild! Two booths selling exactly the same molecular weight (107.87 g/mol), but one writes it as "g/mol" and the other as "g mol-1" — and guess which one is sitting alone? 😂

It's the perfect representation of scientific notation wars! The crowd flocks to the familiar notation while the technically equivalent but less commonly used superscript notation gets ghosted. Poor mol-1 guy is experiencing the chemical equivalent of bringing a calculator to a party where everyone's doing mental math.

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