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Lesson: Chapter 7 — Quantification of Elements and Compounds

7.4. The mole 2 of 8

Question 2

A mole is defined as containing a number of elementary units equal to what?

The right answer is the one marked above.

The number of atoms in 12.00 g of carbon-12. That number is equal to the Avogadro constant.

The definition rests on carbon-12, not on hydrogen — hydrogen was used for the atomic mass unit in the past, but no longer.

Answer the question to continue.