The number of particles present in one mole of any substance is
- A.6.022 into ten to the power twenty-three
- B.6.022 into ten to the power twenty-one
- C.3.011 into ten to the power twenty-three
- D.9.8 into ten to the power twenty-three
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, 6.022 into ten to the power twenty-three, the Avogadro constant, named after Amedeo Avogadro although it was measured long after his death. It is the number of atoms in twelve grams of carbon twelve, and it holds for atoms, molecules, ions or electrons alike, so one mole of water has that many water molecules and one mole of sodium has that many sodium atoms. Option B is wrong because ten to the power twenty-one is a hundred times too small and belongs to no standard constant. Option C is wrong because 3.011 into ten to the power twenty-three is exactly half the Avogadro constant, the number of particles in half a mole, a figure often slipped into the options as a trap. Option D is wrong because 9.8 is the acceleration due to gravity in metres per second squared and has nothing to do with counting particles. Remember also that the mass of one mole in grams equals the molecular mass in unified atomic mass units.
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Practice Questions
View allThe law of conservation of mass in a chemical reaction was given by
- A.John Dalton
- B.Antoine Lavoisier
- C.Joseph Proust
- D.Amedeo Avogadro
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The correct answer is B, Antoine Lavoisier, the French chemist who showed by careful weighing in closed vessels that the total mass of the products of a reaction is exactly equal to the total mass of the reactants, so that matter is neither created nor destroyed in a chemical change.
Read the full explanation →The law which states that a pure chemical compound always contains the same elements combined in the same proportion by mass is known as
- A.The law of multiple proportions
- B.The law of constant proportions
- C.The law of conservation of mass
- D.The law of gaseous volumes
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Water drawn from a river, from rain or made in a laboratory always has hydrogen and oxygen in the mass ratio of one to eight, and ammonia always has nitrogen and hydrogen in the ratio of fourteen to three.
Read the full explanation →Atomic mass of Nitrogen is 14 and that of Hydrogen is 1. What will be the molecular mass of Ammonia?
- A.17
- B.18
- C.15
- D.16
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The formula of ammonia is NH3, so its molecular mass is the atomic mass of one nitrogen atom added to the atomic masses of three hydrogen atoms, that is fourteen plus three times one, which equals seventeen unified atomic mass units; one mole of ammonia therefore weighs seventeen grams.
Read the full explanation →The formula unit mass of CaCl2 is:
- A.115u
- B.114u
- C.111u
- D.110u
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Calcium chloride is an ionic compound, so the sum of the atomic masses in its formula is called the formula unit mass rather than the molecular mass.
Read the full explanation →At standard temperature and pressure, the volume occupied by one mole of any gas is
- A.11.2 litres
- B.22.4 litres
- C.24.4 litres
- D.1 litre
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It follows from Avogadro's law: since equal volumes of all gases at the same temperature and pressure contain an equal number of molecules, one mole of hydrogen, of oxygen or of carbon dioxide all take up the same space at standard temperature and pressure, even though their masses are two…
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