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Tro - Chemistry: A Molecular Approach 6th Edition
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Capitolo 2, Problema 47b

On a dry day, your body can accumulate static charge from walking across a carpet or from brushing your hair. If your body develops a charge of -22 mC (microcoulombs), what is their collective mass?

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Understand that the problem involves finding the mass of electrons corresponding to a given charge.
Recall that the charge of a single electron is approximately \(-1.602 \times 10^{-19}\) coulombs.
Calculate the number of electrons by dividing the total charge by the charge of a single electron: \(\text{Number of electrons} = \frac{-22 \times 10^{-6} \text{ C}}{-1.602 \times 10^{-19} \text{ C/electron}}\).
Use the mass of a single electron, which is approximately \(9.109 \times 10^{-31}\) kg, to find the total mass: \(\text{Mass} = \text{Number of electrons} \times 9.109 \times 10^{-31} \text{ kg/electron}\).
Perform the calculations to find the collective mass of the electrons.

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