A certain ore is 37.3% nickel by mass how many kilograms of this ore would you need to dig up to have 10.0g of nickel

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Tony Jensen

Chemistry

15 June, 08:47

A certain ore is 37.3% nickel by mass how many kilograms of this ore would you need to dig up to have 10.0g of nickel

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Marsh · Answer 1

If the grade of the ore is 37.3% nickel, then the unknown quantity to get 10 grams of nickel is 0.373 x = 10 grams or x = 10/0.373=26.8 grams or 0.0268 kg needed to dig up to recover the 10 grams of nickel. At this grade of ore, 1 kilogram would yield 373 grams of nickel.