Unit of the amount of a substance. One mole of a substance is the mass that contains the same number of particles (atoms, molecules, ions, or electrons) as there are atoms in 12 grams of the
isotope carbon-12.
One mole of a substance is 6.022045 × 10
23 atoms, which is
Avogadro's number. It is obtained by weighing out the relative atomic mass (RAM) or relative molecular mass (RMM) in grams (so one mole of carbon weighs 12 g).
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