Chapter 10 - Chemical Quantities
Chapter 10 - Chemical Quantities
Chapter 10 - Chemical Quantities
Chemical Quantities
Lesson 1
The Mole: A Measurement of Matter
Measuring Matter
Representative particle: whether a substance commonly exists as an ion,
atom, molecular compound, ionic compound
Formula unit: representative particle of ionic compounds
Molecule: representative particle of molecular compounds
Moles
Mole: amount of substance, abbreviated mol
Avogadros number: 6.02 x 1023
1 mol = 6.02 x 1023 representative particles
Example 1
a) How many moles are in 1.20 x 1025 atoms of Phosphorus?
Example 1 (cont.)
b) How many atoms are in 0.750 mol of Zinc?
Example 1 (cont.)
c) How many molecules are in 0.400 mol N2O5?
Example 1 (cont.)
d) How many atoms are in a mole of a compound?
Example 1 (cont.)
e) A mol of carbon dioxide contains 6.02 x 1023 carbon dioxide molecules. How
many atoms does a mol of carbon dioxide contain?
Example 1 (cont.)
f) How many ammonium ions in 0.036 mol of ammonium phosphate?
Example 1 (cont.)
g) How many carbon atoms in a mixture of 3.00 mol acetylene, C2H2, and 0.700
mol carbon monoxide?
Size of a mole
12 grams of charcoal = 1 mol of
carbon
It would take over a billion years to
spend Avogadros number of
dollars if you spent a billion dollars
per minute!
Lesson 2
Mole-Mass and Mole-Volume Relationships
Example 2
What is the mass of 1 mol of each of the following?
a) Sodium?
b) Arsenic?
c) Uranium?
d) What is the mass of a mol of a compound?
Example 3
What is the GMM/GFM of each compound?
a) Carbon tetrachloride?
b) Potassium iodide?
Example 3 (cont.)
c) Strontium chloride?
d) Calcium cyanide?
Molar Mass
GAM = 1 mol of atoms
GMM = 1 mol of molecules
GFM = 1 mol of formula units
Molar Mass:
Equivalent to GFM
The mass of 1 mol of any element or
compound
Used to convert grams into moles or moles
into grams
Example 4
Find the mass in grams of each quantity:
a) 10.0 mol Chromium?
Example 4 (cont.)
b) 5.08 mol Calcium nitrate?
Example 4 (cont.)
c) Find the number of moles in 0.000264 grams Lithium hydrogen phosphate.
Example 5
a) What is the volume, at STP, of 3.20 x 10-2 mol of carbon dioxide?
Example 5 (cont.)
b) Assuming STP, how many moles are in 1.00 x 103 L C2H6 (ethane)?
Example 6
The densities of gases A, B, and C are 1.25 g/L, 2.86 g/L, and 0.714 g/L
respectively. Calculate the GFM of each substance, then identify the unknown
gases as ammonia (NH3), sulfur dioxide, chlorine, nitrogen, or methane (CH4).
Summary of Conversions
Avogadros Hypothesis
Avogadros Work
Gay-Lussac said 1 L of oxygen reacts with 2 L of hydrogen to produce 2 L of
gaseous water.
An oxygen atom cant split in half, therefore Avogadro hypothesized that there
must be 2 atoms of oxygen combined in a single molecule!
Avogadro predicted correct formulas for water, nitrous oxide, ammonia, carbon
monoxide, carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, ethyl alcohol, ether, etc.
Work led to a breakthrough in understanding chemical reactions, but was
generally ignored.
Lesson 3
Percent Composition and Chemical Formulas
Percent Composition
Percent composition:
The percent by mass of each element in a compound
% mass = (grams of element/grams of compound) x 100%
Example 7
Determine the percent composition of each element in
a) methane (CH4)
Example 7 (cont.)
b) potassium chloride
Empirical Formulas
Empirical formula:
The lowest whole number ratio of elements in a compound
When a new compound has been made in lab, we can determine percent
composition then calculate empirical formula
May or may not be the same as the molecular formula
Example 8
Calculate the empirical formula for each compound with following percent
composition:
a) 79.8% C, 20.0% H
Example 8 (cont.)
Calculate the empirical formula for each compound with following percent
composition:
b) 17.6% Na, 39.7% Cr, 42.7% O
Summary of Procedure
1) Assume 100.0 grams of the unknown compound
2) Change the ratio of masses to a ratio of moles
3) Reduce the ratio by dividing each result in Step 2 by the smallest number of
moles
Note: Sometimes Step 3 may not produce a whole number. If the result is very
close to a whole number, you may round. Otherwise, multiply each part of the
ratio by a fraction that will yield whole numbers
Molecular Formulas
Molecular formulas:
Either the same as the experimentally determined empirical formula or a
whole number multiple of it
We can determine molecular formula if we know empirical formula and
GFM
Example 9
a) Calculate the molecular formula of a compound if its GFM is 60 grams and
its empirical formula is CH4N.
Example 9 (cont.)
b) Given C2HCl and GFM = 181.5 grams, calculate the molecular formula.
Summary of Procedure
1) Calculate empirical formula mass (EFM)
2) Divide GFM by EFM
3) Multiply the empirical formula by the whole number calculated in Step 2 to
get the molecular formula
Example 10
a) You find that 7.36 grams of a compound has decomposed to produce 6.93
grams of oxygen. The rest if hydrogen. If the molecular mass of the compound
is 34.0 g/mol, what is the molecular formula?
Example 10 (cont.)
b) The compound methyl butanoate smells like apples. Its percent composition
is 58.8% C, 9.8% H, 31.4% O. If its GMM = 102 h/mol, find its molecular
formula.