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If a typical smelt weighs 225 g, what is the total mass of pcbs in a smelt in the great lakes?

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Alex787 [66]3 years ago

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Since a typical smelt has 1.04 ppm of PCB is great lakes. So the amount of PCB in a smelt in great leak can be calculated by multiplying the mass of smelt by the pcbs present in a smelt

225 g * ( 1.04/100000) = 2.34 x10^-4 g pcbs

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