The Mole Map - Chemistry Worksheet

The MOLE

What is a dozen?

….a ream?

…a gross?

…a pair?

…a mole?

A mole is 6.022 x 10

of something

A mole is a very big number:

1 mole of marbles stacked over the United States

would be 70 miles thick!

A mole can be used to measure anything, just like a dozen

You can have a dozen donuts

… or a dozen eggs

… or a dozen DVDs

You can have a mole of donuts

… or a mole of eggs

… or a mole of DVDs

… or a mole of atoms

… or a mole of molecules

… or a mole of electrons

… or a mole of particles

We use it in chemistry because dealing with a mole of atoms

is more convenient than dealing with just one atom.

If you express atomic mass in grams instead of amu, than you

have one mole of atoms.

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