Sunday, November 11, 2018

physical chemistry - How to determine the empirical formula for an unknown iron oxide?


I have to determine the empirical formula of an oxide of iron which has $69.9\%$ iron and $30.1\%$ dioxygen by mass in it.


I have started as follows:




  1. For our convenience we take $\pu{100 g}$ of that iron oxide:
    We have $\pu{69.9 g}$ of iron in it and $\pu{30.1 g}$ dioxygen in it.





  2. We convert into amount of substance of each element:



    • $\text{amount of substance of iron} = 69.9/55.8 = 1.25$

    • $\text{amount of substance of dioxygen} = 30.1/32 = 0.94$




Is my method and calculations right?





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