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Offline positiveion

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Quantitative Chemistry
« on: September 06, 2009, 11:39:06 PM »
What is the mass in grams of one molecule of ethanoic acid CH3COOH?

What I did was:

(2*12.01) + (4*1.01) + (2*16)

and I got

60.06

But the actual answer was 1X10^-22

Could you tell me how one would go about solving this question?
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Re: Quantitative Chemistry
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2009, 02:43:04 AM »
Quote from: positiveion on September 06, 2009, 11:39:06 PM
What I did was:

(2*12.01) + (4*1.01) + (2*16)

and I got

60.06

60.06 of what?
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