Chapter 3, Problem 3.108QE

Interpretation Introduction

Interpretation:

The percentage of carbon and hydrogen in the starting material has to be determined for a $\text{0}\text{.459g}$ sample that contains only carbon, hydrogen and oxygen reacts with an excess of ${\text{O}}_{\text{2}}$ to produce $\text{0}\text{.170g}$ ${\text{CO}}_{\text{2}}$ and $\text{0}\text{.0348g}$ ${\text{H}}_{\text{2}}\text{O}$.