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mole¹

 [mōl]

the base SI unit of amount of matter. It is the amount of a substance that contains as many elementary entities (atoms, ions, molecules, or free radicals) as there are atoms in 0.012 kg of carbon 12 (¹²C), i.e., Avogadro's number, 6.023 × 10²³, of elementary entities.

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