Superficial destruction of a surface by friction, pressure, ulceration, or trauma. The wearing away of a tooth by chemical or abrasive action. Also called odontolysis. erosion. The gradual wearing away of land surface materials, especially rocks, sediments, and soils, by the action of water, wind, or a glacier.
In chemistry, the molar mass M is a physical property defined as the mass of a given substance (chemical element or chemical compound) divided by its amount of substance. The base SI unit for molar mass is kg / mol.
The mass per mole of a substance is called its molar mass. Since the atomic mass unit (amu) is defined as 1/12 of the mass of the 12C atom, it follows that the molar mass of a substance, measured in grams per mole, is numerically equal to its mean atomic or molecular mass measured in amu.