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Mole

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Mole

Description

The mole [mol] is the SI base unit for the amount of substance of a system that contains 6.02214076Β·1023 specified elementary entities (see Avogadro constant). The elementary entities must be specified and may be atoms, molecules, ions, electrons, other particles, or specified groups of such particles.

Abbreviation: mol

Reference: Cohen 2008 IUPAC Green Book, Gibney 2017 Nature

The redefined international system of units

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Since 2019-05-20, the definition of the mole is (from EURAMET):
The mole, symbol mol, is the SI unit of amount of substance. One mole contains exactly 6.022 140 76 Γ— 1023 elementary entities. This number is the fixed numerical value of the Avogadro constant, NA, when expressed in the unit molβˆ’1 and is called the Avogadro number.
The amount of substance, symbol n, of a system is a measure of the number of specified elementary entities. An elementary entity may be an atom, a molecule, an ion, an electron, any other particle or specified group of particles.
From 1971 until 2019-05-20, the definition of the mole has been:
  1. The mole is the amount of substance of a system which contains as many elementary entities as there are atoms in 0.012 kilogram of carbon 12; its symbol is "mol".
  2. When the mole is used, the elementary entities must be specified and may be atoms, molecules, ions, electrons, other particles, or specified groups of such particles.


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