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The word "mole" was introduced around 1896 by Wilhelm Ostwald who derived the term from the Latin word moles meaning a 'heap' or 'pile'.

The unit mole was accepted in 1967 to provide a simple way of reporting a large number - the massive heap of atoms and molecules in a sample.

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