Amount of Substance Quantity and Units

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Amount of substance is a SI base quantity. Definitions are provided in namespace amountOfSubstance. The base quantity defines derived quantity type MoleClass, and Variables AmountOfSubstance as well as Constant AmountOfSubstanceConstant and a AmountOfSubstanceVector.

The Dimension of AmountOfSubstance is $(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0)$ .

AmountOfSubstance defines the following Units:

Mole (prefixable)

The default unit is mole (symbol: mol). The definition of the mole is currently under discussion, see [Lorimer_2010], [Jeannin_2010], [Mills_2010].

The default name in the base quantity is `amountOfSubstance', and the default symbol is empty. The derived quantity does not overwrite these values.

References

[Lorimer_2010] J. Lorimer, Chem. Intl. 32 (1), 6 - 7 (2010).

[Jeannin_2010] Y. Jeannin, Chem. Intl. 32 (1), 8 - 10 (2010).

[Mills_2010] I.M. Mills, Chem. Intl. 32 (1), 10 - 11 (2010).

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