²⁶Another way to define one mole is that it is the number of individual nucleons (i.e. protons and/or neutrons) necessary to comprise one gram of mass. Since protons and neutrons comprise the vast majority of an atom’s mass, we may essentially ignore the mass of an atom’s electrons when tabulating its mass and pay attention only to the nucleus. This is why one mole of Hydrogen atoms, each atom having just one lone proton in its nucleus, will have a combined mass of one gram. By extension, one mole of Carbon-12 atoms, each atom with 6 protons and 6 neutrons, will have a combined mass of twelve grams.