What is the molar mass of oxygen, O2? (Round to four significant figures only.)
Answer: \(3.200\times 10^{1}\)
Explanation:
According to avogadro's law, 1 mole of every substance weighs equal to the molecular mass and contains avogadro's number \(6.023\times 10^{23}\) of particles.
1 mole of \(O_2\) weighs= 32.0 g
Significant digits are each of the digits of a number that are used to express a number to the required degree of accuracy, starting from the first non-zero digit with exponents raised to the power of 10.
The number is written in scientific notation as \(6.022\times 10^{23}\) contains 4 significant digits.
Thus 32 can be expressed as \(3.200\times 10^{1}\) contains 4 significant digits.