What is the mass of 6molH2S molecules?

1 Answer
May 18, 2017

Equivalently, I might ask how many eggs I need to make 6 dozen eggs. You need 6mol of hydrogen MOLECULES.....

Explanation:

The mole is an entirely equivalent quantity to a dozen.

A mole of something, atoms, molecules, electrons, eggs, SPECIFIES a quantity of 6.022×1023 INDIVIDUAL ITEMS of that something. Chemists often use the symbol the symbol NA to represent the so-called Avogrado's number.............

So, let's assess the number of particles in 6 dozen H2S molecules. Clearly, there are 144 hydrogen atoms, and 72 sulfur atoms. Agreed?

So if there are is a 6mol quantity there are 12×NA hydrogen atoms, and 6×NA sulfur atoms.

And given that NA 1H atoms has a mass of 1g, and a mass of NA 32S is 32g, we can use the mole as the link between the micro world of atoms and molecules, with the macro world of grams, and litres....those quantities we can measure in a laboratory.