Chapter 3.1, Problem 3.1BFP

Interpretation Introduction

Interpretation:

The number of soda cans made from $\text{52 mol}$ of $\text{Al}$ is to be determined. The road map for the calculation of the number of aluminum cans is to be shown.

Concept introduction:

The mass of one mole of the entities (atoms, molecules, or formula units) of a substance that has units of $\text{g/mol}$ is called molar mass.

The SI unit for amount of substance is $\text{mol}$. One mole is defined as the amount of substance that contains the same number of entities such as molecules, ions, atoms as the number of atoms in $12\text{ g}$ of $\text{C-12}$.

The amount and molar mass of a substance are used to calculate the mass of substance in grams. The expression to calculate the mass of a substance in grams is as follows:

$\text{Mass }\left(\text{g}\right)=\left(\text{amount}\left(\text{mol}\right)\right)\left(\frac{\text{no}\text{. of grams}}{1\text{ mol}}\right)$