Mole (unit) measure the amount of substance (although in practice it is usual). There are many physical relationships between amount of substance and other physical quantities, the most notable one being the ideal gas law (where the relationship was first demonstrated in 1857). The term "mole" was first used in a textbook describing these colligative properties. Chemical engineers use the unit extensively, and decimal multiples may be more suitable for industrial use. For convenience in avoiding conversions in the imperial (or American customary units), some engineers adopted the "pound-mole" (notation "lb-mol" or "lbmol"), which is defined as the number of entities in
Epoxy epoxy resins is the epoxide group content. This is correctly expressed as the specific amount of substance of epoxide groups in the material B under consideration, calculated as the ratio of the amount of substance of epoxide groups in this material B, "n"(EP), divided by the mass "m"(B) of the material B under consideration, in this case, the mass of the resin. The SI unit for this quantity is "mol/kg", or multiples thereof. Deprecated quantities which are still in use are the so-called "epoxide number" which is (not a number and should therefore not be referred to as such, but)