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Approximately how many moles of chlorine make up 1.79 × 1023 atoms of chlorine?

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1.2*10^24# atoms of chlorine

Step-by-step explanation:
Chlorine gas (#Cl_2#) has two atoms of elemental chlorine in a molecule, so:
#1# mol of #Cl_2# have #6*10^23# molecules of #Cl_2#
#1# molecule of #Cl_2# have #2# atoms per molucule
Then #2*6*10^23 = 1.2*10^24# atoms of chlorine in a mol of chlorine gas
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