Answer to Question #133542 in General Chemistry for Jamie

Question

Jaiden weighs out 14.93 grams of sucrose and added it to 12.1 grams of sodium chloride. What is the total mass of the mixture?

Answer 1

According to the 1st law of thermodynamics, energy/mass can neither be created or destroyed by chemical means.

That means adding sucrose to sodium chloride, their masses are additive, even if they were to react.

Thus, total mass= Mass of sucrose + Mass of NaCl

= 14.93g + 12.1g

= 27.03g