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Water has a mass per mole of 18.0 g/mol, and each water mo- lecule (H2O) has 10 electrons. (a) How many electrons are there in one liter (1.00 x 10-3 m) of water? (b) What is the net charge of all these electrons?

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Answer:

a) There are
3,35*10^(26) electrons in a liter of water.

b) The net charge is -53601707,1 C

Step-by-step explanation:

a) To find out how many electrons are in a liter of water (equivalent to 1000 grams of water), we have to find out how many molecules of water there are and then multiply it by 10 (e- per molecule).

We can find out how many molecules are by finding the number of moles and then multiplying it by Avogadro's number (number of elements per mol):


e^(-)= (m_(water) )/(M_(water) ) * Avogadro* (e^(-) )/(molecule)=  (1000g )/(18g/mol) * 6,022*10^(23) * (10e^(-) )/(molecule)=3,35*10^(26) e^(-)

b) As all electrons have the same charge, in order to find the net charge of those electrons we have to multiply the charge of a single electron by the number of electrons:


Net charge= -1,602*10^(-19)  (C)/(e^(-) )  *3,35*10^(26) e^(-)=-53601707,1 C

An important clarification is that while the net charge may seem huge, water as a whole is a neutral medium, because there are as many protons as there are electrons, and as they have the same charge, the net charge of water is 0.

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