[BuggyTanya]

Hi,

I am constructing a model of honeybee behaviour and need to incorporate honeybee energetics. I need to calculate how many joules per microliter in a :

1, 2.5, and 0.75 mol solution of glucose.

My attempt:

There are 686 kcal/mol glucose. I think this means that consuming 1 liter of 1 mol glucose would yield 686 kcal.
1 kcal = 4186 joules. Therefore 1 litre of 1 mol glucose has 2,871,596 joules (686 x 4186). This equals 2.87 joules per microliter (divide by 1 million). 1 microliter of 2.5 mol glucose solution would have 7.175 joules (2.87 x 2.5), and 1 microliter of a 0.75 mol glucose solution would have 2.15 joules (2.87 x 0.75).
Is this correct?

Thank you!

[Borek]

Looks OK.