How many moles are present in 7.25xx10^257.25×1025 "carbon dioxide molecules"carbon dioxide molecules?

1 Answer
Feb 2, 2017

Well one mole of stuff, any stuff, including carbon dioxide, specifies 6.022xx10^236.022×1023 individual items of that stuff.

Explanation:

And thus we work out the quotient:

(7.2xx10^25*"carbon dioxide molecules")/(6.022xx10^23*"carbon dioxide molecules"*mol^-1)7.2×1025carbon dioxide molecules6.022×1023carbon dioxide moleculesmol1

~=120*mol120mol "carbon dioxide"carbon dioxide.

This is dimensionally consistent, because we get an answer with units 1/(mol^-1)=1/(1/"mol")=mol1mol1=11mol=mol as required.

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