Combustion data of an organic compound yielded #74.0%, C;# #7.4%, H;# #8.6%, N;# and the balance oxygen. What is the empirical formula?
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Sep 29, 2016
Explanation:
As with all problems of this type, we assume a
And thus:
So we have the molar composition. We simply divide thru by the smallest molar quantity to gets our empirical formula:
Dividing thru by