Question

A local water retention pond was found to have elevated mass concentration of mercury of 14 ng per liter. You would like to collect some mercury for your homemade perpetuum mobile machine. How many moles of mercury can you get you collect and process the entire volume of 1250 m3 of the water in the pond?

Answer 1

The number of moles of mercury can you get you collect and process the entire volume of 1250 m3 of the water in the pond is 8.7  × 10^-5 moles.

First, we must convert the concentration of mercury in the pond to molar concentration using the relation;

Mass concentration = Molar concentration × molar mass

Molar concentration = Mass concentration /molar mass

Molar mass of mercury = 201 g/mol

Molar concentration = 14 × 10^-9 g/201 g/mol = 6.97 × 10^-11 M

Volume of solution = 1250 m3 or 1250000 L

Number of moles = concentration × volume

Number of moles =  6.97 × 10^-11 M ×  1250000 L

Number of moles = 8.7  × 10^-5 moles

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