What is the empirical formula of ethylene glycol?
1 Answer
Oct 22, 2015
The molecular formula of ethylene glycol is
Explanation:
The empirical formula is the simplest whole number ratio defining constituent atoms in a species (this is glib, I think I learned this definition when I was 15, and it has stuck!). Given this, the molecular formula is clearly not the empirical formula (why not?), but is a multiple of the empirical formula.
So the empirical formula of ethylene glycol is