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Which of the samples contains the most atoms? Use evidence from the table to explain your answer.

Which of the samples contains the most atoms? Use evidence from the table to explain-example-1

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Answer: Sodium/Na

Explanation: Molar mass is basically a measure of how heavy 6.02 x 10^23 atoms of a substance is, measured in grams.

So, if Sodium has the lowest molar mass then that means it’s molecules are very light. I’ll give a comparison: if you have 10 kilograms of bricks and 10 kilograms of feathers, will you have more feathers or bricks? Feathers, of course.

Mathematically it looks like this

50g/22.99g/mol = 2.17 mol

2.17 mol • 6.02 x 10^23 = 1.31 x 10^24 atoms

50g/58.93g/mol = 0.85 mol

You can see that as molar mass increases that the number of moles, and consequently, atoms, decreases.

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