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Edexcel AS-level ChemistryAmount of Substance and CalculationsLesson 1 of 39

The easiest way of counting how many particles there are in a substance is to find its mass. There are 6.02 x 1023 atoms in 12g of carbon-12. It follows that if a magnesium-24 atom is twice the mass of a carbon-12 atom then there are 6.02 x 1023 atoms in 24g of magnesium-24.

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