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The document contains 21 chemistry problems involving determining empirical and molecular formulas from percentage or mass composition data. The problems require calculating formulas based on mass or mole ratios of elements in compounds.

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Chapter 6 Test Review

The document contains 21 chemistry problems involving determining empirical and molecular formulas from percentage or mass composition data. The problems require calculating formulas based on mass or mole ratios of elements in compounds.

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Test Review

1. What’s the empirical formula of a molecule containing 65.5% carbon, 5.5% hydrogen, and 29.0%
oxygen?

2. If the molar mass of the compound in problem 1 is 110 grams/mole, what’s the molecular
formula?

3. What’s the empirical formula of a molecule containing 18.7% lithium, 16.3% carbon, and 65.0%
oxygen?

4. If the molar mass of the compound in problem 3 is 73.8 grams/mole, what’s the molecular
formula?

5. A compound with an empirical formula of C2OH4 and a molar mass of 88 grams per mole.

6. A compound with an empirical formula of C4H4O and a molar mass of 136 grams per mole.

7. The percentage composition of acetic acid is found to be 39.9% C, 6.7% H, and 53.4% O.
Determine the empirical formula of acetic acid.

8. The molar mass for question #9 was determined by experiment to be 60.0 g/mol. What is the
molecular formula?

9. Aniline, a starting material for urethane plastic foams, consists of C, H, and N. Combustion of
such compounds yields CO2, H2O, and N2 as products. If the combustion of 9.71 g of aniline yields
6.63 g H2O and 1.46 g N2, what is its empirical formula?
10. The molar mass of aniline is 93 g/mol. What is its molecular formula?

11. Calculate the mass percent of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen in acetamide, C2H5NO.

12. A 50.51 g sample of a compound made from phosphorus and chlorine is decomposed. Analysis of
the products showed that 11.39 g of phosphorus atoms were produced. What is the empirical
formula of the compound?

13. When 2.5000 g of an oxide of mercury, (HgxOy) is decomposed into the elements by heating, 2.405
g of mercury are produced. Calculate the empirical formula.

14. The compound benzamide has the following percent composition. What is the empirical formula?
C = 69.40 % H= 5.825 % O = 13.21 % N= 11.57 %

15. A 15.0g sample of a compound is found to contain 8.83g sodium and 6.17g sulfur. Calculate the
empirical formula of this compound.

16. Find the empirical formula of a compound that contains 53.70% iron and 46.30% sulfur.

17. Analysis of a 10.150g sample of a compound known to contain only phosphorus and oxygen
indicates a phosphorus content of a 4.433g. What is the empirical formula of this compound.

18. A component of protein called serine has an approximate molar mass of 100 g/mole. If the
percent composition is as follows, what is the empirical and molecular formula of serine?
C = 34.95 % H= 6.844 % O = 46.56 % N= 13.59 %
19. What is the empirical formula for a compound which contains 0.0134 g of iron, 0.00769 g of sulfur
and 0.0115 g of oxygen?

20. Barry Um has a sample of a compound which weighs 200 grams and contains only carbon,
hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen. By analysis, he finds that it contains 97.56 grams of carbon,
4.878 g of hydrogen, 52.03 g of oxygen and 45.53 g of nitrogen. Find its empirical formula.

21. The characteristic odor of pineapple is due to ethyl butyrate, an organic compound which
contains only carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. If a sample of ethyl butyrate is known to contain
0.62069 g of carbon, 0.103448 g of hydrogen and 0.275862 g of oxygen, what is the empirical
formula for ethyl butyrate?

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