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A chemist uses moles and stoichiometry to convert between grams and moles of substances. A mole is a unit that represents 6.022x10^23 particles and allows for convenient stoichiometric calculations. The mole was discovered by Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro in 1811, when he realized that equal volumes of gases contain equal numbers of molecules at the same temperature and pressure.

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Mole

A chemist uses moles and stoichiometry to convert between grams and moles of substances. A mole is a unit that represents 6.022x10^23 particles and allows for convenient stoichiometric calculations. The mole was discovered by Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro in 1811, when he realized that equal volumes of gases contain equal numbers of molecules at the same temperature and pressure.

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HOW DOES A CHEMIST

USE A MOLE?

THE
MOLE

A chemist uses a mole and stoichiometry to convert gram-to-gram, gram-to-mole, and mole-to-gram. A mole is also used to determ

Fun Facts

WHAT IS THE
PURPOSE OF A
MOLE?

6.02x1023
particles

If you had exactly one


mole of sheets of paper,
you could make one
million equal stacks from
sealevelontheearththat
wouldpassthesun.

Moles give scientists a consistent method to convert between atoms/molecules and grams. It's simply a convenient unit to use whe

If you had a mole of


pennies, you could give
out enough money to
everyone in the world so
that they could spend a
milliondollarseveryhour,
dayandnight,fortherest
oftheirlives.

Amedeo
Avogadro

By: Ashley Wu

WHO DISCOVERED THE


MOLE?
Lorenzo Romano Amadeo Carlo
Avogadro discovered the mole.
Avogadro was an early nineteenth
century Italian scientist who is
credited with being the first to
realize the connection between the
volume of a gas and the number of
atoms or molecules. He was not a
very prominent scientist, so his
works created little interest in the
scientific community. Avogadros
hypothesis was based off of the
research of Joseph Gay-Lussac.
Avogadros Law states, At a fixed
temperature and pressure, equal
volumes of gases contain the same
number of molecules. At the time
of Avogadros death the amount of
particles there were in a mole was
not determined yet. Robert Brown
was the first scientist to give an
approximate
value.
In
1958,
textbooks
began
stating
Avogadros number as 6.02 x 1023
particles.WHAT IS A MOLE?

A mole is the number of atoms


of carbon-12 that are found in a
12 gram sample (i.e., 6.023 X
1023). A mole is just a unit of
measurement created to refer
to a large number of things
easily.

WHAT IS THE NUMERIC


VALUE OF A MOLE?
The mole is approximately
equal to 6.022169 x 10 23.

HOW DO YHOU FIND THE


WEIGHT OF A MOLE?
To find the weight of a mole,
you must multiple by the
molar mass of the substance.
For example:
Convert
mol OTHE
2 to grams
WHEN7 WAS
MOLE
7 mol ODISCOVERED?
2 x 32 g O2 = 224 g O2
1 mol O2

WHEN WAS IT
DISCOVERED?
In
1811,
Avogadro
is
credited with being the first
scientist to realize that the
volume
of
a
gas
is
proportional to the number
of particles.

Q&A
Silver nitrate reacts
Now
you try!
with
sodium
chloride
to produce silver
chloride and sodium
nitrate. Determine the
amount of sodium
nitrate in grams
produced when given
18.02 grams of silver
chloride.

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