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In the SI systems of unit the mole is one of the seven base units. It is frequently used in chemical calculations. However a mole of something is just a particular quantity of it. It is a not a unit of a measure in the way that meter seconds and kilograms are. Calculations performed with a number of moles of a sepsis could also be performed with the number of particles of a substance. Based on this information do you think that the mo should be considered a base unit in Si system? Explain why or why not.

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the mole should be considered as an SI unit because this quantity is used to determine many other units of measure such as Liters for volume, the pressure of a system in pascals. it is useful in all chemical studies

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