What is the molecular weight of NaOH?

1 Answer
Dec 14, 2015

40 "g/mol"

Explanation:

Take the sum of the molar masses of each element.

"molar mass of Na"=22.990 "g/mol"
"molar mass of O"=15.999 "g/mol"
"molar mass of H"=1.008 "g/mol"

The sum is 39.997 "g/mol". This can be rounded to an even 40 "g/mol".