You want to prepare some oxygen gas in the laboratory using the following reaction:                2KClO3(s)  -->  2KCl(s)  +  3O2(g)   How many liters of the oxygen gas will you collect at 1.00 atm and 22.0oC when you heat 5.05 g of potassium chlorate, KClO3 (molar mass = 122.55 g/mol), but only 85.0% of the compound completely decomposed?           (A) 0.112 L          (B) 1.50 L          (C) 1.27 L          (D) 0.998 L

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You want to prepare some oxygen gas in the laboratory using the following reaction:

               2KClO3(s)  -->  2KCl(s)  +  3O2(g)

  How many liters of the oxygen gas will you collect at 1.00 atm and 22.0oC when you heat 5.05 g of potassium chlorate, KClO3 (molar mass = 122.55 g/mol), but only 85.0% of the compound completely decomposed? 

         (A) 0.112 L

         (B) 1.50 L

         (C) 1.27 L

         (D) 0.998 L

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