Chemistry, 13.06.2021 04:00 jmsmith1218

A 1.375 g sample of mannitol, a sugar found in seaweed, is burned completely in oxygen to give 1.993 g of carbon dioxide and 0.9519 g of water. The empirical formula of mannitol is

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Answer from: sylviaswanson1

C_3H_7O_3

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In this case, according to the given information, it turns out possible for us to infer that the empirical formula of mannitol contains carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, so that the first step is to calculate the moles of C and H contained in the CO2 and H2O, respectively, as the only sources of these two elements in the formula:

$n_C=1.993gCO_2*\frac{1molCO_2}{44.01gCO_2}*\frac{1molC}{1molCO_2} =0.0453molC\\\\n_H=0.9519gH_2O*\frac{1molH_2O}{18.02gH_2O}*\frac{2molH}{1molH_2O} =0.106molH$

Next, we calculate the grams and moles of O by subtracting the mass of C and H from the mass of the sample:

$m_O=1.375g-0.0453molC*\frac{12gC}{1molC}-0.106molH*\frac{1.01gH}{1molH}=0.724gO\\\\n_O=0.724gO*\frac{1molO}{16.0gO} =0.0453molO$

Finally, we divide the moles of C, H and O by 0.0453 as the fewest moles of both C and O to find the mole ratios in the formula:

$C:\frac{0.0453mol}{0.0453mol} =1\\\\H:\frac{0.106mol}{0.0453mol} =2.34\\\\O:\frac{0.0453mol}{0.0453mol} =1$

To get:

$CH_{2.34}O$

Which must be multiplied by 3 to get whole numbers for all the subscripts, and therefore obtain:

C_3H_7O_3

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explanation:

metals have excess of electrons whereas non-metals have deficiency of electrons. thus, in order to gain stability metals easily donate their electrons to the non-metals.

for example, electronic configuration of sodium is $1s^{2}2s^{2}2p^{6}3s^{1}$ and electronic configuration of phosphorous is $1s^{2}2s^{2}2p^{6}3s^{2}3p^{3}$ .

when a phosphorous atom and sodium atom combine together then sodium will donate is extra one electron to the phosphorous atom. as a result there will be formation of ionic bond between sodium and phosphorous.

the reaction will be as follows.

$3na + p \rightarrow na_{3}p$

there, are three sodium sodium atoms and each of them will donate its one extra electron to phosphorous atom. thus, the sub-shell of phosphorous gets completely filled.

thus, we can conclude that electrons are transferred from atoms of sodium to atoms of phosphorous. this transfer makes the sodium atoms donate one electron and the phosphorous atoms to gain one electron. as a result, the sodium and phosphorus atoms strongly attract each other.

Electrons are transferred from atoms of to atoms of this transfer makes the sodium atoms and the

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