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If the surface area of the Pacific Ocean is 1.6176 x 10^8 km^2 and the average depth is 4,080 meters, how many moles of water in the Pacific?
Surface qrea of the pacific ocean = 1.6176*108km2
Km = 1000m
= 1.6176*108 *(1000m)2
= 1.6176*1014 m2
depth = 4080 m
volume = area * depth
= 1.6176*1014 * 4080
= 6.599*1017 m3
= 6.61017 L = 6.6*1020 ml
mass of water = volume * density of water [density of water = 1g/ml]
= 6.6*1020 *1
= 6.6*1020
no of moles of H2O = W/G.M.Wt
= 6.6*1020/18
= 3.6*1019 moles