What are moles in chemistry?

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Jul 27, 2016

See explanation.

Explanation:

Mole is a unit of quantity used in chemistry.

From Wikipedia:

It is defined as the amount of a chemical substance that contains as many elementary entities, e.g., atoms, molecules, ions, electrons, or photons, as there are atoms in 12 grams of carbon-12 (12C)

This number is expressed by the Avogadro constant, which has a value of 6.022140857×1023