Chemistry problem?

The 25.00mL of antibiotic solution needs to contain a minimum of 1.010^8 molecules of the drug. Calculate the moles of drug this represents. The concentration of the stock solution is 5.0010^-9. Then, L stock solution=mol drug/M solution; L=mol/5.00*10^-9 M.

Calculate the volume of the antibiotic solution needed to kill the bacteria.

1 Answer
May 13, 2018

Your question is extraordinarily vague and badly written, I don't think it's finished. However, given your data I tried to make sense of things.

There are,

#1.0*10^8"molecules" * "mol"/(6.022*10^23"molecules") approx 1.66*10^-16 "mol"#

per #25.00"mL"# of antibiotic solution.

Furthermore, according to the question's assumption,

#(1.66*10^-16"mol")/(5.0*10^-9"M") approx 3.32*10^-8"L"#

of antibiotic solution are needed to kill all of the bacteria in the stock solution.

This might be possible with a micro syringe, otherwise this is a very small volume!