mole

noun/moʊl/

Frequency rank: #6,285 most common English word

Meaning

a unit in chemistry equal to approximately 6.022 × 10²³ particles of a substance.

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Example sentence

The scientist used mole as a unit to measure the amount of substance in the experiment.

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