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1. What is the atomic mass (in amu) for phosphorus?

amu

2. What is the atomic mass (in amu) for chlorine?

amu

3. What is the formula mass (in amu) for PCl3?

amu

4. What is the name of the compound with the formula PCl3?

5. What is the mass (in grams) of one molecule of PCl3? (Remember 1 amu = 1.66054 x 10-24 grams)

grams

6. What is the mass, in grams, of 6.02 x 1023 molecules of PCl3?

grams

7. What is the mass, in grams of 6.02 x 1023 molecules of Br2?

grams

In chemistry a mol is the term used to describe an amount of substance that contains 6.023 x 1023 units (atoms/molecules/formula units) of that substance. For example, 1 mol of PCl3 molecules contains 6.023 x 1023 molecules of PCl3. A mole of PCl3 molecules has a mass equal to its formula weight expressed in units of grams. The term molar mass is used to describe the mass of 1 mol of a substance.

8. What is the molar mass of PCl3? (Hint: look at the definition of molar mass above and your answer in Q6.)

grams mol-1

9. How many mol of PCl3 are there in 13.74 grams of PCl3?

mol

10. Complete the following table.

Substance

Molar Mass (g mol-1)

grams

mol

number of atoms, molecules or formula units

O3

48

16

CaCO3

1.25

OK, how about one fun problem?

11. How many oxygen atoms in a sample of Al(NO3)3 with a mass of 1.415 x 10-21 grams? O atoms

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