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Offline wizrak

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Calculating number of moles of diatomic elements
« on: October 21, 2011, 11:42:52 PM »
Lets say there is a question:
There is a container containing 20g of hydrogen, caculate the number of moles of hydrogen in the container.

Hence depending on using 2 or 1 as Mr of hydrogen, we get different answer of 10 or 20 moles.

The thing I am confused about is that hydrogen exists as diatomic particle,

SO should I use 2 or 1 as the Mr of hydrogen when calculating its number of moles.

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Re: Calculating number of moles of diatomic elements
« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2011, 01:48:53 AM »
Since hydrogen usually refers to the molecular version (diatomis), take the weight of Hydrogen (Hydrogen gas) to be 2 g/mol
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