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On 8/15/2013 2:28 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> wrote:
>> On 15 August 2013 16:43, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> A mole is as much a number (6e23) as the light year is a number (9.5e15).
>>
>> A mole is a number. A light year is a unit.
>
> A mole is an amount of something. Avogadro's Number is a number, which
> is what I was hinting at :)

The unit for 'mole' is 'ion', 'atom', or 'molecule', as appropriate for 
the 'something'. In other words, the units are the reacting input units 
and resulting output units in a particular chemical reaction.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy