medical examiner is trying to determine the cause of death of a 48 year old male, Archie, who seems to have been poisoned. Police found rat poison (Strychnine - C21H22N2O2) in the home, so one suspect is his wife Lisa. However, upon questioning Lisa, she blames their neighbor Ralph, an anthropologist who studies antique South American hunting arrows. These arrows happen to contain the deadly poison, Curare (C40H44N4O), so Ralph is also being considered a suspect. An analysis of Archie's blood was done using mass spectrometry and a compound that contains 80.66% carbon, 7.39% hydrogen, 9.39% nitrogen, and 2.68% oxygen was found. Can you determine the empirical formula for the compund to determine if it could match one of these two poisons?
A medical examiner is trying to determine the cause of death of a 48 year old male, Archie, who seems to have been poisoned. Police found rat poison (Strychnine - C21H22N2O2) in the home, so one suspect is his wife Lisa. However, upon questioning Lisa, she blames their neighbor Ralph, an anthropologist who studies antique South American hunting arrows. These arrows happen to contain the deadly poison, Curare (C40H44N4O), so Ralph is also being considered a suspect. An analysis of Archie's blood was done using mass spectrometry and a compound that contains 80.66% carbon, 7.39% hydrogen, 9.39% nitrogen, and 2.68% oxygen was found. Can you determine the empirical formula for the compund to determine if it could match one of these two poisons?
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