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Calculate the percent composition (% mass of each element) for the following (2 points each): CHCl3 KNO3 C6H6 H2SO4 NH3

          Calculate the percent composition (% mass of each element) for the following (2 points each):

CHCl3
KNO3
C6H6
H2SO4
NH3
        

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Chemistry: Structure and Properties
Chemistry: Structure and Properties
Nivaldo Tro 2nd Edition
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00:01 Calculates the percent composition, the percent mass of each element for the following elements.
00:07 So we have chloroform, potassium nitrate, c6 -h6, fenzene, and we have sulfuric acid, and we have ammonia.
00:17 So the first thing we have to do is determine the molar mass for each one of these.
00:24 And all you do is you add up all of the masses for each one of the elements.
00:28 So for chloroform, it weighs 119 .38, and potassium nitrate is 101 .101 .10.
00:40 Benzyme, 78 .11, sulfuric acid, 98 .08, and ammonia, 17 .03.
00:50 So the percent mass for each element is just the mass of that element, divided by the total mass of the compound.
01:00 So for each one of these, the units are grams per mole.
01:05 I'm just going to write down the first one.
01:08 For carbon, for the first one, that's 12 .01 divided by 119 .38, and you will get a certain number.
01:20 And then you have hydrogen, which is 1 .008 divided by 119 .38.
01:28 And chlorine is three times the mass of chlorine, which is 35 .453, all over 119 .38.
01:46 So that mass i'm actually going to put right down here.
01:52 And i'm going to jump cut to filling in all of the rest.
01:57 So here we have all of our values.
01:59 I will go ahead and separate them out a little bit by drawing a line where they are all separate.
02:09 Now i left these as a decimal.
02:12 You can go ahead and leave them as a decimal or you can put them into a percentage.
02:18 And if you are going to put them into a percentage, all you have to do is move the decimal point to places to the right.
02:27 So for example, this 0 .106, all you have to do is move it two places to the right, and it becomes 10 .06%.
02:40 Same thing with this hydrogen.
02:44 It's 8 .4 times 10 to the minus 3.
02:48 So 0 .84, and that's 8 .44%.
02:56 This 89 .09 will become, 89 .1%.
03:03 So you can leave them as a decimal point or you can put them into a percentage.
03:08 It's up to you and what your instructor wants.
03:11 Question two has two questions, but they are virtually identical.
03:17 So let's get started.
03:18 A compound contains carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, and it was shown to have 53 .3 % carbon, 11 .2%.
03:31 Hydrogen, and then the rest is oxygen.
03:34 So all you do for oxygen is you take 100 minus 53 .3 3 minus 11 .2.
03:43 So let's do that.
03:44 We have 100 minus 53 .3 minus 11 .2.
03:50 That will give you the rest remaining oxygen, which is just 35 .5%.
03:55 Now from here, you're going to want to assume you have 100 grams of your compound.
04:02 So these percentages will actually translate immediately to grams.
04:08 Because if you have 100 grams of something and 35 % of that is oxygen, for example, 35 .5 grams will become oxygen.
04:18 Next, you want to convert these to moles by dividing by the molar mass for each one of these compounds.
04:27 I'm going to round oxygen to 16.
04:29 So we have 50.
04:30 33 .3 divided by 12 .01.
04:34 This becomes 4 .43797.
04:40 And then we have 11 .2 divided by 1 .08.
04:45 This becomes 11 .11 .11.
04:47 And then we have 35 .5 divided by 16.
04:52 And this is 2 .219.
04:55 So now we divide everything by the smallest number of moles, because this is moles, after all.
05:10 So oxygen will become one.
05:12 Then we have 11 .11 divided by our previous answer of 2 .219.
05:17 This comes out to be a 5, and then we have 4 .43 divided by 2 .219, and this comes out to be approximately 2 .2.
05:27 These are approximately two and approximately five.
05:30 We say approximately because there is some inherent rounding in the percentages and in the molar masses.
05:36 So your empirical formula is c2h5o.
05:42 So if the molecular mass is 90 .12 grams per mole, what is the molecular formula? well, let's figure out how much this weighs.
05:52 We have 12 .01 times 2, 1 .008.
05:57 Times 5, and then 16 times 1.
06:01 So let's add all of these up, 12 .01 times 2, plus 16 plus 1 .008 times 5.
06:11 And this comes out to be 45 .06.
06:16 Now this is grams per mole.
06:18 This is approximately half of 90 .12.
06:22 So if we take, i'm going to move here in the middle, if we have 90 .12 divided by 45 .06, we get approximately two.
06:36 Therefore, your empirical formula must be multiplied by two to get to the molecular formula.
06:45 So your molecular formula now becomes c4h1002.
06:53 So this is your molecular.
06:55 And this is your empirical over here.
07:02 So now let's take a look at the second part.
07:10 This time we have carbon, we have hydrogen, we have oxygen, and we have nitrogen.
07:17 Carbon was 40 .4%.
07:21 Oxygen was 36 .0 %.
07:27 Nitrogen was 15 .7%.
07:30 So for our hydrogen, that's 100 minus.
07:34 40 .4 minus 36 minus 15 .7.
07:40 That's gonna be 7 .9%...
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