Friday, November 13, 2015

Empirical formula

Today we learned empirical formulas! An empirical formula is finding the subscripts to a chemical formula. These are the steps to finding the empirical formula.

1st: calculate the empirical formula mass

2nd: divide thee E.F. mass into the gram formula mass and get a whole number.

3rd: distribute the whole number to the empirical formula.



5 comments:

  1. Thank you Arik the steps will be very useful for using the empirical formula.

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  2. Thank you Arik the steps will be very useful for using the empirical formula.

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  3. Nice explanation of empirical formulas, Arik. You really simplified the big process of solving into 3 small steps. :)

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  4. I agree with Varun. Empirical formulas can seem a bit confusing at first, but you really made it easier to understand.

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  5. That makes Empirical formulas so much more simple!

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