Question
Question: How many grams are there in \[4.6 \times {10^{24}}atoms\] of silver?...
How many grams are there in 4.6×1024atoms of silver?
Solution
Here we need to determine the mass of a given number of atoms of an element. Hence , to determine it, we need to identify the equalities between moles of element and atoms of element and also between moles of element and its molar mass. Here also we need to remind that a mole is a collection of 6.023×1023 particles , ions or atoms. In the type of questions, we just use avogadro number to determine the number of atoms in a given gram.
Complete answer:
First of all we need to know atoms in 1mole of Ag.
Therefore , atoms in 1mole of Ag 6.022×1023atoms of Ag
Next we should know the molar mass of Ag for doing further calculations.
Therefore, molar mass of Ag =107.87g/mol
In next step we have to multiply the given number of atoms of silver by 6.022×1023atomsAg1molAg
Then the equation will be as follows,
6.022×1023atomsAg1molAg×4.6×1024atomsAg
Then the above equation should be multiplied with molar mass of silver.
Then the equations become as follows,
6.022×1023atomsAg1molAg×4.6×1024atomsAg×1molAg107.87gAg
=820gAg
Therefore , 820g are there in 4.6×1024atomsof silver.
Note: So simply we can find the gram in particular number of atoms of a given element just by remembering the simple calculations we did above. So , if we need to calculate number of atoms in a sample , just we have to divide its weight in gram by atomic mass and then we have to multiply the result by avogadro number which is 6.022×1023atoms. If we have three pieces of information like number of atoms , molar mass and avogadro number , thus we can easily calculate the gram from the given sample.