Grain of salt atoms. So the average atomic weight of salt is 2925 grams per mole. There is no such thing as a salt atom it consists of na sodium and cl chlorine atoms. A grain of salt countable a very small unit of weight in england equal to 1480 of an ounce troy 00648 grams or to be more exact 6479891 milligrams 0002285714 avoirdupois ounce. If three grains equal one millimeter in length then a single grain is approximately 03 mm or 003 cm on a side.
There are about 10000000000000000 10 quadrillion atoms in each grain of salt. Grains of table salt vary slightly in size but three average grains stacked together adds up to approximately one mm. So a billion molecules of salt would require two billion atoms. Assuming 70 micrograms as the mass of a grain of salt it contains 70e 65849 1197e 6 mol.
Sodium na and chlorine cl. Somebody check my 30 year old. If we wish to know a grain of salt we must know at least the three. Now it is a simple matter to find how many atoms there are in a grain of salt.
That is a 1 followed by 16 zeros 10 million billion atoms. In that grain of salt there are about 1016 sodium and chlorine atoms. The molar mass of salt is 5849 gmol about 2299 for sodium 355 for chlorine. Each molecule of table salt sodium chloride nacl contains two ions one each of sodium na and clorine cl.
The cubic arrangement of atoms and the cubes that are visible in these large halite crystals and the small grains of table salt is called the rock salt structure. This is the same material that makes up the tiny crystals of table salt. The atomic mass of na is 23 gr per mole and the atomic mass of cl is 355 gr per mole. Englisch deutsch uebersetzungen fuer with a grain of salt im online woerterbuch dictcc deutschwoerterbuch.
So we need to use an average value. Large cubic crystals of sodium chloride nacl are often found in nature halite. Not all nacl grains are of equal size. A carat grain or pearl grain is 14 carat or 50 milligrams.
If so youre looking at 000111 moles x 6022 x 1023 or 66822000000005100000.