I hate Monday tests. Or at least extremely dislike. It means I have to study over the weekend or at least look over the materials and I'm not a huge fan of that, rather do that on the weekdays.
Over all I think I'm gonna gonna do pretty well, at least on the first half of the unit. I ended up getting 15 out of 17 correct on the test, or a 88%. I'm still kind of confused at the point of the both empirical and molecular formulas, and when I think upon it further, the latter of the two makes more sense. Why would there be a formula which isn't even the actual formula of the compound (empirical)? Found some more information upon both of these formulas here.
I really don't like having test on Mondays as well, but I guess I will have to make the best of it and study the material that we were provided. The empirical formula is basically the most simplified possibility of a certain compound. This is found by taking the mass of an element and converting it into moles, then do this for the other elements and divide by the smallest number. Plug the rounded numbers back into the formula and there is your formula.
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