A combustion analysis is a technique to find the the empirical formula of compounds.  In a combustion analysis experiment, 0.8657 g of an organic compound containing only carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen is burned in oxygen, forming 1.190 g of CO2 and 0.3248 g of H2O. What is the empirical formula of the compound? Write the numbers that you would write in the subscript of the formula in the boxes next to the symbol of the element

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A combustion analysis is a technique to find the the empirical formula of compounds.  In a combustion analysis experiment, 0.8657 g of an organic compound containing only carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen is burned in oxygen, forming 1.190 g of CO2 and 0.3248 g of H2O. What is the empirical formula of the compound? Write the numbers that you would write in the subscript of the formula in the boxes next to the symbol of the element.

C       H     O 

 

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