The Mole:A single atom or a few atoms are rarely encountered. Instead, larger, macroscopic quantitiesare used to quantify or measure collections of atoms or molecules, such as a glass of water, agallon of alcohol, or two aspirin. Chemists have introduced a large unit of matter, the mole, todeal with macroscopic samples of matter. One mole represents a definite number of objects, substances, or particles. For example, a moleof atoms, a mole of ions, a mole of molecules. A mole is defined as the quantity of a pure substance that contains 6.022 x 10^23 units of that substance. In other words, a mole is Avogadro's number of anythi...