What is the relationship between a mole and Avogadro's number?
Flexi Says:
Chemists needed a name that can stand for a very large number of items. Amedeo Avogadro (1776 - 1856), an Italian scientist, provided just such a number. He is responsible for the counting unit of measure called the mole. A mole (mol) is the amount of a substance that contains 6.02 × 1023 representative particles of that substance. The mole is the SI unit for amount of a substance. Just like the dozen and the gross, it is a name that stands for a number. There are therefore 6.02 × 1023 water molecules in a mole of water molecules. There also would be 6.02 × 1023 bananas in a mole of bananas, if such a huge number of bananas ever existed.