1.a compound was found to contain 43.66% phosphorus and the rest was oxygen.find the simpliest formular of the compound?
1 Answer
We gots
Explanation:
With all these problems, it is useful to assume an
In each case we divided the elemental mass by the ATOMIC mass of each element... From where did I get these atomic masses?
And we divide thru by the lowest molar quantity to get an empirical formula of
But we requires WHOLE numbers...and so we got
The actual material is likely