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I have a homework on Petrology and the Question is to determine how much Potassium is in a 791.67 kg.

 Jan 25, 2016
edited by Boricua140  Jan 25, 2016

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Don't  you have to specify 791.67 kg of what substance? It must be a compound that contains Potassium. Unless they want to determine the number of moles of Potassium in 791.67 kg.

The molrcular mass of Potassium is 39.0983 gm/mol. Then just convert 791.67 kg into grams and divide as follows:

791.67 X 1000=791,670 grams / 39.0983=20,248.19 moles of Potassium.

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Don't  you have to specify 791.67 kg of what substance? It must be a compound that contains Potassium. Unless they want to determine the number of moles of Potassium in 791.67 kg.

The molrcular mass of Potassium is 39.0983 gm/mol. Then just convert 791.67 kg into grams and divide as follows:

791.67 X 1000=791,670 grams / 39.0983=20,248.19 moles of Potassium.

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U seem very smart guest...

U lost me after the first scentence:)

 Jan 25, 2016
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Do you know what a "mole" in Chemistry is? If you don't, then you haven't reached that level of Chemistry yet.

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The number at the bottom of the cell in the table of periodic elements is the the number of grams of that substance that is a 'mole' of that substance   ,  a mole has 6.023 x 10^23 atoms of that substance.

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This is all very confusing to me!

 Jan 25, 2016
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A mole is the gram molecular weight. You can find it on the periodic table of the elements. The kind of chemistry is the easy part to understand.   

 Jan 25, 2016
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Oh...Well.. I have NOT taken Chemestry yet, And im a junior, uh- oh! I don't think it's a requirment, though.

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I not take it yet either. There are web sites that teach it. So I get a big head start when I do. :)

 Jan 25, 2016

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