A cublic meter of ocean water contains 6x10^-5 g of gold. If the total mass of the water in Earth's oceans is 4x10^20 kg, how many kilograms of gold are distributed throughout the ocean? (Assume that the density of seawater is 1 g/cm3.) How many literes of seawater would have to be processed to recover 1kg of gold.(which as the value of about $8850 )
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