Chemistry: The Central Science (13th Edition)
13th Edition
ISBN: 9780321910417
Author: Theodore E. Brown, H. Eugene LeMay, Bruce E. Bursten, Catherine Murphy, Patrick Woodward, Matthew E. Stoltzfus
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 10, Problem 51E
Practice Exercise 1
Tetra carbon dioxide is an unstable oxide of carbon with the following molecular structure:
What are the molecular and empirical formulas of this substance?
3, 0202, co,
b, C40, co
0 002, co2
a, 0402, 0.20
a. 0,0, 002
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