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The English word mole comes from the German word "Mol", short for "Molekulargewicht" meaning "molecular weight". This is thought to have come from the French word "moléculaire" meaning "molecule".

The Latin root is "molecula" a diminitive for the word "moles" meaning "mass".

The word "mole" is used when we're talking about numbers of atoms and molecules.

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