Re: What is the exact value of a mole?

From: Richard Schultz (schultr_at_mail.biu.ack.il)
Date: 12/29/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 05:25:56 +0000 (UTC)

In article <xrnAd.7103$1U6.4935@trnddc09>, Joshua Halpern <vze23qvd@verizon.net> wrote:

:> Conveniently saving yourself the trouble of having to answer my quite simple
:> question: if two laboratories make an identical measurement and one reports
:> a result of 10.0 +/- 0.2 while the other one reports a result of 9.9 +/- 0.3,
:> are the two results consistent with one another?
:
: Is the reported error a standard deviation?

Let's assume it's a 1-sigma error.

: If so, how many measurements were made, and are there other than
: statistical considerations in the stated errors?

Assume that the numbers were derived as the slope of a linear fit to 100 data
points (one measurement) and that the reported error is the statistical error
in the slope itself without any further statistical considerations.

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Richard Schultz schultr@mail.biu.ac.il
Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not those of Bar-Ilan University
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 "an optimist is a guy/ that has never had/ much experience"

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