What's the mole of a substance

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The mole is the SI unit for the amount of substance. It is a fundamental unit in chemistry used to express the quantity of a chemical substance.

One mole of any substance contains exactly 6.022×10236.022 \times 10^{23} elementary entities (atoms, molecules, ions, electrons, etc.). This number is known as Avogadro's number (NAN_A).

The mole provides a convenient way to convert between the number of particles (which is extremely large) and the macroscopic mass of a substance. The mass of one mole of a substance is called its molar mass, and it is numerically equal to the substance's atomic or molecular weight in grams per mole (g/mol\text{g/mol}).

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