What mass is a sample of oxygen gas that contains Avogadro's number of atoms?

1 Answer
Jun 28, 2018

A 16 g mass...

Explanation:

Most of the elemental gases, certainly the gases with any chemistry are BINUCLEAR... We speak of dinitrogen, dioxygen, dihalogen...

And so given a 16g mass of O2...we gots HALF a mole of O2 oxygen molecules, and this is EQUIVALENT to ONE MOLE of oxygen atoms...