Believe it or not, there is gold dissolved in the Earth's oceans! The concentration can run as high as 40.0 ppb. If you could somehow extract all the gold from 7.45 x 106 kg of ocean water, how many grams of gold could you recover? Assume the concentration of gold is 40.0 ppb.
Believe it or not, there is gold dissolved in the Earth's oceans! The concentration can run as high as 40.0 ppb. If you could somehow extract all the gold from 7.45 x 106 kg of ocean water, how many grams of gold could you recover? Assume the concentration of gold is 40.0 ppb.
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Believe it or not, there is gold dissolved in the Earth's oceans! The concentration can run as high as 40.0 ppb.
If you could somehow extract all the gold from 7.45 x 106 kg of ocean water, how many grams of gold could you recover? Assume the concentration of gold is 40.0 ppb.
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