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Given information

Given:

Mass of produced =  

Mass of produced =  

Mass of equilin sample =  

Molar mass of equilin =  

 

 

Find:

The molecular formula of equilin.

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

Molecular formula:

It is the chemical formula of a compound that consists of the symbols of elements present in the compound with a subscript. The subscripts represent the number of respective elements.

Empirical formula:

It is a chemical formula that represents the simplest whole-number ratio of elements present in a compound. 

 

Molecular formula and empirical formula can be related as:

    

Where n = whole number 

n can be calculated as:

 

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