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What is the difference between Molar Mass and Molecular Mass?

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L. Agate

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Answered Dec 11, 2020

When you say molecular weight, you are referring to the weight of the molecule in a certain substance. It does not matter what type of substance the molecule is being weighed from. What matters is that it is being weighed properly. The molar mass is the mass of one mole that you can find in a substance.

Molar mass is known to be grams per mole. You can make use of Avogadro’s number if you would like to convert molar mass to molecular mass whenever you need to do so. You would be reporting molar mass as grams per mole.

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Answered Nov 27, 2020

The molar mass and molecular mass are chemical terms that are used to depict amounts of masses; they differ in the method of calculation. At the same time, molar mass can be determined by the division of the total mass of a particular substance by the amount of it in moles. The figures which result from that division will be grams per moles. Molecular mass, on the contrary, is calculated by the ratio of the mass of the substance to the one-twelfth of the carbon 12 isotope. The molar mass and molecular mass differ in terms of definition. Molar mass is the mass of one mole of a particular element, while molecular mass, on the other hand, does refer to the mass of the molecules. They differ in terms of their standard international units. While the unit of Molar Mass is grams per mole, but the unit of molecular mass is Atomic mass units (AMU).
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Answered Nov 18, 2020

When you say molecular weight, you are referring to the mass of the molecule that can be found in a substance. When you say molar mass, you are referring to the mass of a mole of a substance. If you would like to report the molar mass, you would be using the unit g/mol. If you would be measuring molecular weight, you would need to use and. For molar mass, the measurement may be used for compounds, atoms, and molecules. When you say molecular mass, this can only be used for molecules which means that everything will be more specific. Molecular mass is also considered to be more accurate as compared to molar mass.
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Answered Jul 23, 2020

Molar mass is the mass that a substance's mole has. It is how many atoms and molecules that one substance has. Molar mass is measured in the scientific unit of g/mol, which is gram per mole. The Avogradro's number can also come into play to represent how many atoms a substances molar mass has. This number is 6.022 x 1023.

Molecular mass is how much mass an atom in a compound or element has. Molecular mass is measured in amu, which is atomic mass units. Both molar mass and molecular mass would be important for someone studying chemistry to know.

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Answered Jul 20, 2020

Some people may get confused with molar mass and molecular mass because they assume that these two things are the same. They are not the same. When you say molecular mass, this is the weight of the mass of one molecule that you can find in a compound. You know that a compound is made up of different molecules, right? The molecular weight will provide the specific weight of one of the molecules. When you say molar mass, this refers to one mole of the compound that you will find. Knowing these things will help you know what you are looking for when you are asked to provide the details of both.
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Answered Jul 13, 2020

Differentiating between molar mass and molecular mass can be very technical to understand because both usually give the same result. An example of this will be given later. Molar mass can be defined as the mass of one mole of a substance. In other words, the molar mass is the amount of atoms, molecules in one mole of a substance. The SI unit of molar mass is gram per mole i.e., g/mol. At times, Avogadro's number, 6.022 x 1023, is used to represent the number of atoms or molecules that one molar mass of a substance contains.

Differentiating between molar mass and molecular mass can be very technical to understand because
On the other hand, molecular mass refers to the mass of an individual atom or molecule of an element or compound. The SI unit of molecular mass is amu i.e., atomic mass units. You can be asked to calculate the molecular mass and molar mass of H20, all you need to do is to determine the multiplications of all the elements that make up the compound in terms of their atomic masses with respect to their subscripts and then add. For instance, the atomic mass of Hydrogen is 1.0079, and 15.9994 for oxygen. The molecular mass is 2(1.0079) + 15.9994 = 18.0152 amu, and the molar mass is 2(1.0079) + 15.9994 = 18.0152 g/mol.

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