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Why do we use moles when calculating empirical chemical formulas, but not the mass?
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Why do we use moles when calculating empirical chemical formulas, but not the mass?

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because it’s the amount of atoms in the unit
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because moles is the chemical unit*Avogadro's number, meaning it's the amount of atoms in the given unit.

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