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Chapter 42, Problem 17P

(a)

To determine

Order of magnitude estimate of the number of atoms.

(b)

To determine

The volume of the quantity of salt taken.

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Use a magnifying glass to look at the grains of table salt that come out of a salt shaker. Compare what you see with 42.11a. The distance between a sodium ion and a nearest- neighbor chlorine ion is 0.261 nm. (a) Make an order-ofmagnitude estimate of the number N of atoms in a typical grain of salt. (b) What If? Suppose you had a number of grains of salt equal to this number N. What would be the volume of this quantity of salt?
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