Chemistry for Engineering Students
4th Edition
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Author: Lawrence S. Brown, Tom Holme
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 3, Problem 3.56PAE
3.56 A large family of boron-hydrogen compounds has the general
formula BxHy. One member of this family contains 88.5% B;
the remainder is hydrogen. What is its empirical formula?
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