A large family of boron-hydrogen compounds has the general formula BxHy . One member of this family contains 88.5% B ;the remainder is hydrogen. What is its empirical formula?
1 Answer
Mar 26, 2018
Well, we got the empirical formula
Explanation:
We are given that the stuff contains
And so we ASSUME a
We divide thru by the SMALLER molar quantity, that of boron, to get the empirical formula, which is the simplest whole number ratio representing constituent atoms in a species...
And so we got