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Question #f9eac

Answer 1

`1.363 * 10^(24)" Na"^(+)"cations"`

Explanation:

If by amount of sodium ions you mean how many of them you have in that sample of sodium carbonate, `"Na"_2"CO"_3`, then all you have to do here is use two conversion factors

• one to take you from grams to moles
• one to take you from moles to number of ions

Now, before moving forward, notice that one mole of sodium carbonate contains

• two moles of sodium cations, `2 xx "Na"^(+)`
• one mole of carbonate anions, `1 xx "CO"_3^(2-)`

So, use the molar mass of sodium carbonate to calculate the number of moles present in that sample

`120.0 color(red)(cancel(color(black)("g"))) * ("1 mole Na"_2"CO"_3)/(106.0color(red)(cancel(color(black)("g")))) = "1.132 moles Na"_2"CO"_3`

This means that your sample will contain

`1.132 color(red)(cancel(color(black)("moles Na"_2"CO"_3))) * ("2 moles Na"^(+))/(1color(red)(cancel(color(black)("mole Na"_2"CO"_3))))`

`= "2.264 moles Na"^(+)`

Now all you have to do is use Avogadro's number

`color(purple)(bar(ul(|color(white)(a/a)color(black)("1 mole" = 6.022 * 10^(23)"particles")color(white)(a/a)|)))`

to calculate the number of sodium ions present in that many moles

`2.264 color(red)(cancel(color(black)("moles Na"^(+)))) * (6.022 * 10^(23)" Na"^(+)"cations")/(1color(red)(cancel(color(black)("mole Na"^(+)))))`

`= color(green)(bar(ul(|color(white)(a/a)color(black)(1.363 * 10^(24)" Na"^(+)"cations")color(white)(a/a)|)))`

The answer is rounded to four sig figs.