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Topic: percentage of atoms in 1040 steel that are carbon?  (Read 2508 times)

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Offline MustangFTW

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percentage of atoms in 1040 steel that are carbon?
« on: October 13, 2012, 10:26:20 PM »
If 1040 steel contains .4% by weight carbon what percent of the atoms in 1040 steel are carbon?


im completely stumped.

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Re: percentage of atoms in 1040 steel that are carbon?
« Reply #1 on: October 13, 2012, 11:51:04 PM »
Can you check to see if you wrote the question correctly? is there any information missing?
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Re: percentage of atoms in 1040 steel that are carbon?
« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2012, 08:18:34 AM »
I would assume 1040 steel contains only Fe and C. If you have 1000 g of the steel, what is the mass of iron? Carbon? Numbers of atoms?
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