What is the amount of gold present in 15.5g of a pure gold ring? (Au=197)

.0787 moles

Explanation:

I'm assuming you mean moles of gold present as the "amount."

This is a moles to moles calculation, so we set it up as such:

*Note that 15.5g Au is given to us, and 197 g / mol of Au is gold's molar mass.

15.5g Au * (1 mol Au / 197 g Au) = ?

We can evaluate the equation to get 15.5 / 197 to get .0787 moles of Au.

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two years ago, when picking flowers in the mountains back of yosemite valley; i found a book. it was blotted and storm-beaten, all of its outer pages were mealy and crumbly. the paper seemed to dissolve like the snow beneath which it had been buried, however, many of the inner pages were well preserved. and although all were more or less stained and torn; whole chapters were easily readable. this is the condition of the great open book of yosemite glaciers today, its granite pages have been torn and blurred by the same storms that wasted the castaway book.