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Lesson: Chapter 7 — Quantification of Elements and Compounds

7.3. The Avogadro constant 5 of 6

Question 5

What is the Avogadro constant?

The right answer is the one marked above.

Simply a count. Just as a dozen is 12, it is a number of particles and nothing more — which is why it has no unit.

Taking it for a mass is a common slip. It is not something measured in grams; it is how many particles a certain number of grams holds.

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