Moles

 I've looked at this table of conversions, but was never

able to really make sense of what was going on. Until

today, that is. Had another 'middle of the night' session

on the computer and cracked it. ( I knew the molecular weight

of water was 18, but this table was off by a factor of ten!!)

Long story short, the molecular weight of glucose is - by coincidence, 

to me -180. So yes, the weight of sugar is ten times that of water, thus

on a table of solute weights, the difference between the two is a 

factor of 18. Sugar molecules weigh more on the dance floor.

To recap:

There are two measures of blood sugar concentration, one

uses moles and the other grams. The first is the scientific one,

used in the UK and Canada; the other the popular one, used in the US

and European countries. Molarity  is a convenience mesure meant

to link the work of chemists and a human-scale experience of weight.  

One mole represents  6.02214076×10^23 positive entities: molecules,

atoms or ions.

And this solved it for me; a proton is 1 dalton (an unofficial but widely used

measure). H2O comes in at 18 because O is good for 16(8 protons and 8 neutrons)

and the two H count for 1 each (Because it is water,  positive ions are

active...) A dalton is known as the universal unit.

                                                           

https://www.joslin.org/patient-care/diabetes-education/diabetes-learning-center/conversion-table-blood-glucose-monitoring

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How Was Avogadro's Number Determined? - Scientific American

Avogadro’s Number | Definition & Units | Britannica

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Doing the math: an average person might have 5 liters of blood in circulation.

Given a reading of 100mg/DL (5.5 mmol/L), which is a reasonable fasting level,

a person would have 1000mg/L or one gram of 'sugar' per liter of blood in their body.

For 5 liters, this amounts to 5 grams, or approximately one teaspoon. Not that much, and 

the brains gets served first...

                                                               

                                                                      

                                   

                                                                              

Thus, a glucose injection is hypotonic.

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Now mass producing turtles from a class: