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8.55 amount of pure substance is present  in 500 g box of table salt .

What do you mean by the amount of substance ?

The amount of substance is  the number of particles that constitute the substance. The particles or entities may be molecules, atoms, ions, electrons, or other.

The number of atoms, molecules or ions in a mole of a given substance is the Avogadro constant. The value of the Avogadro constant is 6.02 x 1023 per mole.

To calculate the amount of pure substance in  500 g box of table salt -

Since,

Amount of pure substance(Mole)=Mass/Molar mass.....(1)

Here,

Mass=500 gms , Molar mass=58.44 gms

Put the values in above,

n=500/58.44

n=8.5 mol

Hence,8.55 amount of pure substance is present  in 500 g box of table salt .

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