Answer:
2.69 x 10²³ atoms
Explanation:
Given parameters:
Volume of sea water = 2.06mL
number of moles of gold = 0.446moles
unknown:
Number of atoms in the sea water
Solution:
The mole is a convenient unit of measuring quantities of particles. In a mole we have 6.02 x 10²³particles.
The mole can be defined as the amount of a substance contained in Avogadro's number of particles which is 6.02 x 10²³particles.
Here, the particles we want to determine is the number of atoms:
Number of atoms is given as:
Number of gold atoms = number of moles of gold x 6.02 x 10²³
Number of gold atoms = 0.446 x 6.02 x 10²³ = 2.69 x 10²³ atoms
