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Letter: Letter

Published 8 March 2003

From Jo Frost

Your list of base units defines the mole as “the amount of a substance that contains as many elementary entities as there are atoms in 0.012 kilograms of carbon-12”.

Surely if a kilogram is an indefinable amount then so must be a mole?

Manchester, UK

Issue no. 2385 published 8 March 2003

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