[Caius]

Well I have an element called NaCl (Sodium Chloride)
From my data, I have found 6.00 grams of it.
And my molar mass that I received was 58.44 g/mol
Which came from (1molNa*22.99/1molNa)+(1molCl*35.45g/1molCl) = 58.44 g/mol

But what I was confused was finding the mole of just one element.
Like for Na, how would I find the mole of just that element from the data I have?
I accidently did the same way for calculating the whole mole of the compound.
Though I thought of something else.
Would this be correct?
mol NaCl = 1molNa/1molNacl = 1 mol Na?
(I used x mol Na = mol NaCl * 1 mol Na / 1 mol NaCl) = 1 mol Na)

Thanks for responding

[KRuland]

Look like you did it right to me.

1 mol NaCl = (1 mol Na⁺) + (1 mol Cl^-)

[Arkcon]

You know you have 6 g of NaCl, you also know the formula weight in g/mol.  You should be able to compute the moles of NaCl, and relate that to the Na in it.

[Caius]

Oh ok thanks!
Cause I was doing this for the same thing
Like for Sucrose
Which is C12H22O11
I got:
12 mol C
22 mol H
11 mol O

And I thought.. it was pretty simple, since it's basically the numbers of atoms of the element.

[Borek]

Well I have an element called NaCl (Sodium Chloride)

It is a COMPOUND made of two ELEMENTS.