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avogadro's constant question

please help ..my chem teacher is never there and have to do stuff from text books :s
dont understand this !!

calculate the number of itemes in each of the following,
given in Avogadro.C is 6x10^23 ( and i do not understand what this term means ??)

ahhh
okay here is the first question

1) 0.500 mol of CH4 molecules

2) 2.00 moles of h2 molecules

please help ......thanks !!
Reply 1
amazing-moi
please help ..my chem teacher is never there and have to do stuff from text books :s
dont understand this !!

calculate the number of itemes in each of the following,
given in Avogadro.C is 6x10^23 ( and i do not understand what this term means ??)

ahhh
okay here is the first question

1) 0.500 mol of CH4 molecules

2) 2.00 moles of h2 molecules

please help ......thanks !!

One mole of any substance has 6*10^23 atoms in it.

Therefore for a) What's half of 6*10^23?

b) what's double it?
Reply 2
6.02x10^23 is the number of atoms in 1 mole of a substance

does this help?...
Reply 3
basically the number is the ammount of atoms you need to get it's mass number in grams.

so, 1 mol (6.02x10^23) of carbon = 12g
1 mol of oxygen = 16 g etc.
Reply 4
Avogadro's constant is 6.02 x 10^23. (Or 6 x 10^23 as you have said)

It is the number of molecules/atoms/ions in 1 mol of a substance.

So a 1 mole of molecules is 6 x 10^23. 1 mole of atoms is also 6 x 10^23.

So for the first question you have 1/2 a mol of CH4 molecules and therefore the total number of molecules is 1/2 of Avogadro's constant, or (6 x 10^23)/2

For the second question you have 2 mols of H2 molecules and so you must multiply Avogadro's constant accordingly.
Reply 5
CH4= 10
1 mole = 10

0.500 moles= 5
Reply 6
Avo's constant =

6.02 x 10^23 of , as you said, stuff.

Stuff = atoms, molecules, unit factors, ions, electrons, protons, neutrons (for a laugh you can say there is currently 1.16 x 10^-14 people on this planet). In short, anything

So, a breakdown of this question

amazing-moi

1) 0.500 mol of CH4 molecules

2) 2.00 moles of h2 molecules


For quickness I'll use L for Avo's constant.

1) 0.500 mol of CH4 molecules
CH4 Molecules: (0.5 x L)
Atoms comprising 0.5mol CH4: (0.5 x 5 x L) [5 atoms / molecule]
Carbon Atoms: (0.5 x L)
Hydrogen atoms: (0.5 x 4 x L)
Electrons present: (0.5 x 8 x L) [for each molecule of CH4 there are 8 electrons]
etc

2) 2.00 moles of H2 molecules
Molecules = (2L)
Atoms = (2 x 2L)
Electrons = (2 x 2L) [one electrons for each]
Protons = (2 x 2L) [one H atom is one proton + one electron, normally)]
etc

You get the point :biggrin:

Hope this helps!

Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avogadro%27s_constant#Application

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