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anor277
Jun 21, 2017

A "mole"mole is simply a NUMBER......

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See this old [answer and links.........](https://socratic.org/questions/how-should-i-study-about-moles-and-how-they-relate-to-things-like-stoichiometry)

A "gram atom"gram atom is a bit of an old-fashioned term, that refers to the mass of "Avogadro's number"Avogadro's number of "atoms"atoms............i.e. a gram atom of carbon is 12*g12⋅g, of oxygen is 16*g16⋅g, of hydrogen is 1*g1⋅g.

And each of these "gram atoms"gram atoms specifies precisely "Avogadro's Number"Avogadro's Number of atoms, i.e. 6.022xx10^23*mol^-16.022×1023⋅mol−1.

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