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Calculate the mass, in grams, of a single silver atom (mag = 107.87 amu ).

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Answer is: mass of a single silver atom is 1.79·10⁻²² grams.

m(Ag) = 107.87 amu.

The unified atomic mass unit (amu) is a standard unit of atom mass.

One unified atomic mass unit is approximately the mass of one nucleon (1.66·10⁻²⁷ kg).

m(Ag) = 107.87 · 1.66·10⁻²⁷ kg.

m(Ag) = 1.79·10⁻²⁵ kg · 1000 g/kg.

m(Ag) = 1.79·10⁻²² g.

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