What NUMBER of carbon monoxide molecules constitutes a mass of 28*g?

1 Answer
Jul 16, 2017

How many moles of CO do you have.........?

Explanation:

And we know that by definition, 1*mol of stuff contains 6.022xx10^23 individual items of that stuff, i.e. N_A individual items, where N_A-=6.022xx10^23*mol^-1.

.......And here your stuff is CO, where a mole of said stuff has a mass of 28*g....

How many atoms in this molar quantity?

Note that this question is effectively asking "how many atoms are there in dozen carbon monoxide molecules?"

I make it "3 dozen.."

If you can answer this question, you can certainly answer the former.