Here it is:
When Carbon-containing compounds are burned in a limited amount of air, some CO as well as some CO2 is produced. A gaseous product mixture is 35.0 mass % CO and 65.0 mass % CO2. What is mass % of C in the mixture?
Now, for the mass of CO2 I got 46g and for CO I got 30g. Now, I have the formula, but whenever I use it I seem to get a weird answer. The formula was:
(Moles of X in formula x Molar Mass of X (g/mol)/mass (g) of 1 mol of compound) x 100
I plugged in 3 x 16/76g x 100 and got somewhere around 63%, but where does the 65 and 35% tie in!?!
If you can sort this out I would be much obliged. Thanks guys.
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2007-12-11
08:30:37
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