Units for 15.3 Part B

[Hena Sihota 1L]

Part B asks you to determine the rate of formation for O₂. The solutions manual gives the units in (mol O₂).L^-1.s^-1. Is it wrong to leave the O₂ out of the units and just leave it as mol.L^-1.s^-1?

[Tia Tomescu 2D]

I believe the (mol O2) is just to specify that the answer is for the moles of O2. Usually when we answer questions we don't need to specify that.

[Kelly Kiremidjian 1C]

I think they put that just to distinguish that they were referring to moles of oxygen. I don't think we would have to put that in every problem

[Aijun Zhang 1D]

I believe you do not need to put O2 in it since it is just a comment to specify the substance calculated.

[Ramya Lakkaraju 1B]

The solutions manual is just trying to distinguish between the different reactants and products so that the reader doesn't get confused as to why there are multiple same answers for different reactants/products.