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Question #513f2

Answer 1

The answer is (a) `6.02 * 10^(23)`

Explanation:

So, you know that your sample of glass contains `"9 g"` of water.

Use water's molar mass to find how many moles of water you get in your glass sample.

`9color(red)(cancel(color(black)("g"))) * "1 mole water"/(18.02color(red)(cancel(color(black)("g")))) = "0.4994 moles water"`

A water molecule, `"H"_2"O"`, contains one oxygen atom and twp hydrogen atoms. This means that every mole of water, you have

• one mole of oxygen
• two moles of hydrogen

This means that the number of moles of hydrogen you have in that many moles of water will be

`0.4994color(red)(cancel(color(black)("moles water"))) * "2 moles H"/(1color(red)(cancel(color(black)("mole water")))) ~~ "1.00 moles H"`

Now, one mole of any element contains exactly `6.022 * 10^(23)` atoms of that element - this is known as Avogadro's number.

In your case, one mole of hydrogen will contain

`1.00color(red)(cancel(color(black)("mole H"))) * (6.022 * 10^(23)"atoms H")/(1color(red)(cancel(color(black)("mole H")))) = color(green)(6.02 * 10^(23)"atoms of H")`

SIDE NOTE The exact value will actually be `6 * 10^(23)` atoms of hydrogen, since you only gave one sig fig for the mass of water.