What is the mass of one mole of $CO_2$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-04-02T15:42:35

$44.009g$

Finding the mass of a molecule is quite simple: add up the mass of the atoms that make it up. $CO_2$ , for example, has one carbon and two oxygen.

Using mass numbers from the RSC periodic table, the total mass per mole is

$1 * 12.011gmol^-1 + 2 * 15.999gmol^-1 = 44.009gmol^-1$

Because there is only one mole of $CO_2$ ,

$44.009g/(mol) * mol = 44.009g$

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