If you were given 1 mole of 5cent coins would you be a millionaire? Calculate how many dollars you would have.

2 Answers
Nov 5, 2017

Yes

Explanation:

A mole is 602,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 units, usually written as #6.02*10^23#.

If you had this number of nickels, you would have $30,100,000,000,000,000,000,000.00. Definitely a millionaire

Nov 5, 2017

My word...you might even have an earth-mass of shrapnel....

Explanation:

We take the product....

#6.022xx10^23xx$0.05=$3.01xx10^22#

Last year the world's gross domestic product (whatever that is, I am a chemist not an economist dammit...) was #75,278,049xx10^6*USD#

I happen to know that the Australian 5 cent coin has a mass of #2.83*g#.

And thus we would have a mass of #6.022xx10^23xx2.83*gxx10^-3*kg*g^-1=1.70xx10^23*kg#...

For comparison the mass of the sun is #1.989xx10^30*kg#....

....the mass of the Earth is #5.97xx10^24*kg#....

....the mass of our moon is # 7.35xx 10^22 *kg#....

And so we got more than a lunar mass of shrapnel....