What is the empirical formula and empirical formula mass for C9H27O9?
1 Answer
Feb 28, 2018
Empirical formula:
Empirical formula mass:
Explanation:
The empirical formula, essentially, is just the molecular formula in simplest terms.
This means that we can divide every subscript of the molecular formula by their greatest common factor to find the empirical formula.
So, for us, this factor would be
The molar mass of this formula is the amount of mass in
To get that, we need to add the masses of