what was the dollar amount of the gold that could have been extracted from 3.0 m3 of seawater?

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The German chemist Fritz Haber proposed paying off the reparations imposed against Germany after World War I by extracting gold from seawater.

Given the following data, what was the dollar amount of the gold that could have been extracted from 3.0 m3 of seawater?

  • The price of gold at the time was $0.68 per gram of gold.
  • Gold occurs in seawater to the extent of 5.15 x 1011 atoms per gram of seawater.
  • The density of seawater is 1.03 g/cm3.

 

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