Question

explain the term : a mole of the substance

Answer 1

nothing a mole can dog more holes in a hour

Answer 2

A mole of the substance can be defined by following points:


1) The mole designates an extremely large number of units, 6.02214179 × 1023, which is the number of atoms determined experimentally to be found in 12 grams of carbon-12.

2) Carbon-12 was chosen arbitrarily to serve as the reference standard of the mole unit for the International System of Units (SI).

3) The number of units in a mole also bears the name Avogadro’s number, or Avogadro’s constant, in honour of the Italian physicist Amedeo Avogadro (1776–1856).


4) Avogadro proposed that equal volumes of gases under the same conditions contain the same number of molecules, a hypothesis that proved useful in determining atomic and molecular weights and which led to the concept of the mole


5) According to Avogadro’s law it states that, under the same conditions of temperature and pressure, equal volumes of different gases contain an equal number of molecules.


6) This empirical relation can be derived from the kinetic theory of gases under the assumption of a perfect (ideal) gas. The law is approximately valid for real gases at sufficiently low pressures and high temperatures.


7) The number of atoms or other particles in a mole is the same for all substances.


8) The mole is related to the mass of an element in the following way: one mole of carbon-12 atoms has 6.02214179 × 1023 atoms and a mass of 12 grams. In comparison, one mole of oxygen consists, by definition, of the same number of atoms as carbon-12, but it has a mass of 16 grams. Oxygen, therefore, has a greater mass than carbon. This reasoning also can be applied to molecular or formula weights.


9) The concept of the mole helps to put quantitative information about what happens in a chemical equation on a macroscopic level.

10) The mole can be used to determine the simplest formula of a compound and to calculate the quantities involved in chemical reactions.