The mole and the Avogadro constant
3.3What the syllabus asks of you
- State that the mole, mol, is the unit of amount of substance and that one mole contains 6.02 × 1023 particles, e.g. atoms, ions, molecules; this number is the Avogadro constant
- Use the relationship amount of substance (mol) = molar mass (g / mol) / relative atomic mass or relative molecular / formula mass mass (g) to calculate: (a) amount of substance (b) mass (c) molar mass (d) (e) number of particles, using the value of the Avogadro constant
- Use the molar gas volume, taken as 24 dm3 at room temperature and pressure, r.t.p., in calculations involving gases
- State that concentration can be measured in g / dm3 or mol / dm3
- Calculate stoichiometric reacting masses, limiting reactants, volumes of gases at r.t.p., volumes of solutions and concentrations of solutions expressed in g / dm3 and mol / dm3, including conversion between cm3 and dm3
- Use experimental data to calculate the concentration of a solution in a titration
- Calculate empirical formulae and molecular formulae, given appropriate data
- Calculate percentage yield, percentage composition by mass and percentage purity, given appropriate data
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