Practice Items

Exercise 1

Calculate the number of moles represented by each mass.

a. 12.66 g lithium
b. 2500 g gold 
c. 2.56 g nickel
d. 2.345 g  Li2CO32H2O
e. 14.1 g  xenon hexafluoride
f. 591.34 g  potassium hydrogen sulfate
g. 0.003 67 g sulfur dioxide

Exercise 2

Calculate the mass of each sample.

a. 88.6 mol copper

b. 0.0346 mol silver
c. 0.037 mol tin(IV) silicate
d. 4.23 mol Ba(BrO3)2
e. 65.72 mol diphosphorus pentaoxide
f. 2.996 mol mercury(I) iodide (Hint: mercury(I) is a polyatomic ion - Hg22+)

Exercise 3

Calculate the volume of each amount of gas at STP conditions.

a. 0.295 mol of carbon monoxide

b. 2.7 mol of krypton

Exercise 4

Which sample in each pair contains the greater number of particles (i.e. greater number of
moles)?

a. 25.0 g of aluminum or 25.0 g of copper?

HOMEWORK:

1. What mass of sodium carbonate will be obtained if 3.36 g of pure sodium

hydrogencarbonate is heated? (The other products of the reaction are carbon dioxide
and water.)

2. What mass of copper can be extracted from 5.0 g of copper(II) sulfate by dissolving
the copper sulfate in water and adding zinc metal? (The other product is zinc sulfate).

3. What mass of potassium iodide is needed to react exactly with 8.0 g of lead nitrate, to
form lead iodide? (The other product is potassium nitrate).

4. When calcium carbonate is heated strongly, it forms calcium oxide and carbon
dioxide.What mass of calcium carbonate is needed to make 50.0 g of calcium oxide?

5. Sodium carbonate reacts with hydrochloric acid to form sodium chloride, water, and
carbon dioxide. Some hydrochloric acid was added to some sodium carbonate: 6.0 g
of sodium chloride were formed. What mass of carbon dioxide was produced?

6. What mass of lead oxide would need to be reacted with nitric acid to produce 10.0g
of lead nitrate?