Given combustion data, how would we find the empirical formula of #C_7H_5N_3O_6#?
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Explanation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT
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And you were given the elemental composition that IGNORED the oxygen atoms, and got the number of hydrogen atoms wrong.
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TNT is used as an explosive because of its ease of manufacture, and its resistance to detonation under standard conditions. Of course, when properly primed, and detonated, it is a highly potent explosive.
Note that when microanalysis is performed upon an organic sample, we measure