Penicillin, the first of a now large number of antibiotics, was discovered accidentally by the Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming in 1928, but he was never able to isolate it as a pure compound. This and similar antibiotics have saved millions of lives that would otherwise have been lost to infections. Penicillin F has the formula C14H20N2SO4. Compute the mass percent of each element in penicillin.

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Penicillin, the first of a now large number of antibiotics, was discovered accidentally by the Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming in 1928, but he was never able to isolate it as a pure compound. This and similar antibiotics have saved millions of lives that would otherwise have been lost to infections. Penicillin F has the formula C14H20N2SO4. Compute the mass percent of each element in penicillin.

 

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