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Q. What is an Amount of Substance?

Ans: Amount of substance is a quantity that measures the size of a group of elementary particles like atoms, molecules, electrons, etc. in a sample.

It is sometimes referred to as material quantity or chemical amount. It is a dimensionless expression to represent the count of particles.

The SI unit for amount of substance is the mole . It has the unit symbol mol.

Related : Molar Concentration, which is amount of substance per unit volume of solution


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