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Problem 9

(II) What is the total charge of all the electrons in a 12-kg bar of gold? What is the net charge of the bar? (Gold has 79 electrons per atom and an atomic mass of 197 u.)

Answer

$-4.6\times 10^{8} C$ and the net charge is zero

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