Empirical and Molecular Formula Practice
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- Chemistry, Science
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- Empirical Formula, Molecular Formula
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- Activities
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This resource includes 20 problems to practise empirical and molecular formula calculations.
The answers and solutions are included, though the document can be edited to meet your lesson's needs.
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Learning objectives
Calculate an empirical formula from percentage or mass composition
Determine a molecular formula from a molar mass and an empirical formula or percentage composition
Teaching tips
Students need atomic masses from a periodic table to work the mole-ratio and molar-mass steps.
Skills covered
Mole ratios — converting composition data to the simplest whole-number ratio
Molar mass reasoning — scaling an empirical formula up to the molecular formula
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Molecular formula
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