Combined Science GCSE
Amount of substance and the mole
What Amount of substance and the mole means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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A mole is an amount of substance containing a fixed number of stated particles, not a fixed mass.
Topics that use Amount of substance and the mole
- Moles (HT only) (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Avogadro constant
- Molar mass and mass–mole calculations
- mole
- Mole ratios from balanced equations
- Particle number and amount of substance
- Relative formula mass
- The mole as a counting unit
- Amount in moles
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