• We need your support!

    We are currently struggling to cover the operational costs of Xtremepapers, as a result we might have to shut this website down. Please donate if we have helped you and help make a difference in other students' lives!
    Click here to Donate Now (View Announcement)

URGENT HELP NEEDED PLZ

Messages
389
Reaction score
202
Points
53
A solid iron cube of side 20mm has a mass of 6.3x10^-2 kg.
One mole of iron atoms has a mass of 5.6x10^-2 kg.

(i) How many iron atoms are there in the cube?
(ii) Hence, find the maximum volume that the iron atom could occupy in the solid state.
(iii) Use your answer to b(i) above to estimate the diameter of an iron atom.
 
Messages
732
Reaction score
27
Points
26
(i) the Total Mass of the Cube is due to all the Atoms inside , so to calculate iron atoms in the cube we would divide total mass of cube by one Atom of the iron cube
mass of one Atom of iron cube
= 5.6x10^-2 / 6.0221415 x 10^23
= 9.099 x 10^ -26

No of Atoms
= 6.3x10^-2 / 9.099 x 10^ -26
= 6.92 x 10^23


(ii) total volume of cube is 20 x 20 x 20 = 8000 mm^3

And 1 Atom can occupy a volume of
= 8000 / 6.92 x 10^23
1.156 x 10^-20

(iii) since it is a cube divide the total no of atoms by 3 to calculate no of atoms in one side
= 6.92 x 10^23 / 3
= 2.30 x 10^23

diameter = 20 / 2.30 x 10^23
=8.696 x 10^ -23 mm
 
Top