The document discusses the mole, which is the standard unit used to measure amounts of substances in chemistry. It defines the mole as the amount of a substance that contains as many elementary entities (atoms, molecules, ions, etc.) as there are atoms in exactly 12 grams of carbon-12. It notes that one mole always contains 6.022x10^23 elementary entities, known as Avogadro's number. The document also introduces the concept of relative atomic mass (RAM) and shows how to use moles and RAM to calculate the number of moles or mass of a substance.