How many my of Nitrogen are in a Diet Coke If normally a Diet Coke contains 192mg Aspartame?

Answer 1

Aspartame is a molecule containing two Nitrogen atoms. With Nitrogen's atomic mass of 14 g/mol and the molecular weight of aspartame being 294 g/mol, we will use dimensional analysis to solve this problem:

192mg Asp = 0.192 g *(1 mole/294 g) * (2 moles of N/ 1 mole Asp) * (14.0 g)/ 1 mole N ) = 0.0183 g =

18.3 mg.

There will be 18.3 mg of Nitrogen in Diet Coke.