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# Homework Help: chemistry

Posted by david on Monday, March 17, 2014 at 11:14pm.

Combustion analysis of a hydrocarbon produced 33.01 g {\rm CO}_2 and 27.04 g {\rm H}_2{\rm O}. Calculate the empirical formula of the hydrocarbon.

• chemistry - DrBob222, Tuesday, March 18, 2014 at 12:30am

33.01 g CO2
27.04 g H2O

mols CO2 = 33.01/44 = ? = mols C.
mols H2O = 27.04/18 = ? and that x 2 = mols H.
Now find the ratio of C to H with C being no larger than 1.0

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