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How can you use a fossil to indemnify the environment where the organism lived

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Climate is one of the factors that determines where different species of plants and animals can live, so paleontologists look for clues to a location's ancient climate in the types of fossil plants and animals they find there. For example, no modern crocodile species lives in a climate with long periods of freezing temperatures, so scientists hypothesize that ancient crocodiles had the same requirement for year round warmth. That leads them to consider the 110-million-year-old crocodile fossils from the Washington, D.C. to be part of a large body of circumstantial evidence that temperatures there were warm year round during the Early Cretaceous. Similarly, coal beds and fossil trees in the Arctic Slope of Alaska are among the many clues that Alaskan temperatures were very warm during the Late Cretaceous.

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Select the correct answer. Thomas has 235 grams of K2S in the chemistry lab. How many atoms of potassium (K) are in 235 grams of

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Atoms are the smallest division of the element. The potassium atoms present in the 235 gm of the compound is $2.57 \times 10^{24}$ atoms.

<h3>What is the number of atoms?</h3>

Given,

Mass (m) of Potassium sulfide $(\rm K_{2}S)$ = 235 gm
Molar mass (M) of Potassium sulfide = 110.26 g/mol

Calculate the number of moles as:

$\begin{aligned}\rm Moles (n) &= \dfrac{\rm mass}{\rm molar\;\rm mass}\\\\&= \dfrac{235}{110.26}\\\\&=2.13\;\rm mol\end{aligned}$

In the given compound $\rm K_{2}S$ , there are two atoms of potassium and one atom of sulphur.

If, 1 mole = $2 \times 6.022 \times 10^{23}$ atoms of potassium

Then, 2.13 moles = X atoms

Solving for X:

$2.13 \times 2 \times 6.022 \times 10^{23} = 2.57 \times 10^{24}$

Therefore, option c. $2.57 \times 10^{24}$ is correct.

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The density of a substance is defined as the volume it occupies. It tells the matter present in a substance.

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The formula for density is given by:

density (p) = $\frac{mass}{volume}$

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The initial volume of water was 45.5 ml, when iron piece of 28.5 grams was added the final volume was 49.1 ml.

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