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A mole is the amount of substance that contains as many elementary entities as there are atoms in 0.012 kilograms of carbon-12. The mole is the SI unit of amount of substance. The amount of substance of a system is a measure of the number of specified elementary entities. An elementary entity may be an atom, a molecule, an ion, an electron, a photon, or a specified group of such entities.