Essential Chemistry for IGCSE - Chemical Calculations (Section 2 - No. 37)
What happens during the step of dividing by the lowest number of moles when finding the empirical formula?
The numbers become the subscripts in the empirical formula.
The molar masses change.
The total mass of the compound changes.
The number of atoms of each element is calculated.
Explanation
After division, the resulting numbers represent the ratio of atoms of each element in the formula.
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