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Professor Molenium, or ‘Mole” for short, is the symbol and representative of all Chemists, members, of the American Chemical Society.
Moles are also members of the animal kingdom of which chemists and humans also enjoy membership. accordingly, chemists selected Professor Molenium as their representative for that reason.
“enium” is a common name-ending in chemistry, though ordinarily for a class of objects called elements or atoms. Some examples are sodium, or, ruthenium. If a sodium atom bonded to a ruthenium atom, chemists would call the product a molecule and it would have it’s own name, maybe something like “sodium-ruthenate”. I’m sort of making “sodium-ruthenate” up, I don’t know if sodium reacts with ruthenium to make something different from sodium or ruthenium or not. But if they do, the product can be refered to as a molecules because it is something new.
From the word molecule, chemists get the new word “Mole”. It refers to 6X10^23 molecules of a pure substance. Its an important word when chemists want to react two different substances but want the same number of molecules of each one. So Mole is a good name for Professor Molenium.