Entitic quantities are quantities, such as entitic number (or number of entities) N e (B), , entitic mass m e (B) or entitic volume V e (B), relating to a specified ''generalized molecule'' or entity B, such as H (meaning a single atom of hydrogen) or H 2 O or {(1 - x )H 2 0 + x CH 3 OH}. Molar quantities are the quotients of an extensive quantity and amount of substance n B , such as molar number N m {or Avogadro constant L = N e (B)/ n (B)}, molar mass m m (B) {or M (B)}, or molar volume V m (B), also of an entity B. It is shown that there is no imperative need to retain quantities like amount of substance n , or the Avogadro constant L , or the molar gas constant R , or the SI unit: mole. All of these could be discarded from the equations of physical science, though whether it would be useful to discard them is of course open to question.
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M. L. McGlashan (1997) studied this question.
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