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Now, don’t get confused with the amount of things you must learn and understand; trust me,
it gets easier once you get the hang of it, and if you practice it enough. For this, we will be
doing some questions together, too.
Relative Atomic Mass:
The mass of one mole of atoms is its ‘relative atomic mass’ in grams. In other words, the
relative atomic mass of any atom is the number of times the mass of one atom of an
element is greater than 1/12 of the mass of one carbon-12 atom. Its symbol in chemistry is
Ar.
Or:
These two formulas (which are basically the same; one has Ar and the other Mr) will help
you as long as you are studying chemistry.
Let’s do some questions on moles together. Remember, in the paper you will be provided
the periodic table from where you can see the atomic numbers and masses of respective
elements, but it is always good to memorize the repeated ones.
1. Mr of CO2 = 12 + (2 x 16) = 44
Mass in grams = 7 x 44 = 308 g
Now, let’s deal with volumes of gases. Memorize the following formulae:
These two formulae, in this form or another, are going to be used repeatedly by you. Let’s
do some questions for practice.
1. What volume (at r.t.p) would 0.2 moles of oxygen gas occupy?
2. Vol of O2 = 0.2 x 24 = 48 dm³.
These were basic questions. Let’s now go to some trickier ones: ones that involve
equations as well as calculations.
From the equation we can see that 1 mol of MgO contains 1 mol of ions and 1 mol of ions.
0.5 mol of MgO will contain 0.5 mol of ions and 0.5 mol of ions.