Amount of substance in use in chemical engineering in the United States is the pound-mole, having the symbol lb-mol. One pound-mole is . When quoting an amount of substance, it is necessary to specify the entity involved, unless there is no risk of ambiguity. One mole of chlorine could refer either to chlorine atoms, as in 58.44 g of sodium chloride, or to chlorine molecules, as in 22.711 liters of chlorine gas at STP. The simplest way to avoid ambiguity is to replace the term "substance" by the name of the entity or to quote the empirical formula. For example: Amount of substance
Action (physics) in time and space. Action has the dimensions of [energy]⋅[time], and its SI unit is joule-second, which is identical to the unit of angular momentum. In classical physics, the term "action" has a number of meanings. Most commonly, the term is used for a functional formula_2 which takes a function of time and (for fields) space as input and returns a scalar. In classical mechanics, the input function is the evolution q("t") of the system between two times "t" and "t", where q represents the generalized coordinates. The action formula_3 is defined as the integral of the Lagrangian "L" for