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Transcribed Image Text:A compound is 25.0% carbon, 8.4% hydrogen and 66.6% sulfur by mass.
Put symbols in order of CHS. Enter the formula without subscripting the numbers, add no
spaces. For example: C4H402.
Its empirical formula is
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