Friday, November 2, 2012

Unit 4 Lesson 9

Avogadro's Number

  • 1 mol = 6.022 x 10^23
Scientific notation

  • The decimal always has one number to the left
  • Positive --> move the decimal point to the right
  • Negative --> move the decimal point to the left
The mass of 1 mol of a substance is called the molar mass
  • Atomic mass given on the periodic table is = to the mass of 1 mole of atoms of the element in grams
  • Molar mass allows you to convert between moles of atoms and grams of atoms
Ex:

Practice Problems
4) a. 14  b. 20.1797  c. 35.5  d. 63.5
5) a. Carbon  b. iron  c. Gold  d. Gold

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