How do you calculate the number of chloride ions in 0.5 mol of Magnesium Chloride?
1 Answer
Nov 28, 2017
See below.
Explanation:
Step 1: Write out the chemical formula of the compound.
Magnesium Chloride =
Step 2: Convert moles into number of compounds using Avogadro's number
Step 3: Determine how many Chloride ions there will be in 1 compound
There will be 2
Step 4: Multiply the number from Step 2 by the number in Step 3
We do this because the ratio is 2
In the case of finding how many ions in general (both sodium and chloride), we would multiply by 3 because there are 3 ions per 1 compound.
Step 5: All done!
I hope this helped!