A mole is defined as the amount of a substance that contains exactly 6.02214076 X1023 elementary entities of the given substance. Thus, a mole of a substance is referred to as the mass of a substance containing the same number of fundamental units as atoms in exactly 12.000 g of 12C.
- The following formula can represent the number of moles of a substance in a given pure sample:
n = N/NA
- n is the number of moles of the substance
- NA is the Avogadro constant.
