What mass is associated with a 1/2*mol12mol quantity of sodium hydroxide?

1 Answer
Jul 7, 2017

Well........"sodium hydroxide"sodium hydroxide has a molar mass of 40.0*g*mol^-140.0gmol1

Explanation:

And thus if we have a 1/2*mol12mol of "caustic soda"caustic soda, we have a mass of..........

1/2*cancel(mol)xx40*g*cancel(mol^-1)=??g

Note the DIMENSIONAL consistency of the answer. We want an answer with units of mass, and the product gives us an answer with units of mass. This is a check on my calculations, and built in detection of possible error on my part in framing the problem......