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mole

Noun B2 – Upper-Intermediate

The SI unit for the amount of a substance, equal to a fixed number of particles, roughly 6.02 times ten to the twenty-three.

"A mole of carbon atoms weighs almost exactly twelve grams."

In chemistry "mole" refers to this unit of amount, an entirely different word from the small burrowing animal.