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Question

64 g of an organic compound has 24 g carbon and 8 g hydrogen and the rest is oxygen. The empirical formula of the compound is

Options

A.CH4O
B.CH2O
C.C2H4O
D.None

Solution

            C     H    O
mass    24     8    32
moles      
ratio       2      8    2
Simple integer ratio  1     4    1   
Hence empirical formula is CH4O

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