moles

noun/moʊlz/

Frequency rank: #12,149 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

units used in chemistry to measure the quantity of a substance, equal to approximately 6.022 × 10²³ particles each.

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Example sentence

The scientist used moles to measure the amount of substance in the chemical reaction.

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