Chemistry: Matter and Change
Chemistry: Matter and Change
1st Edition
ISBN: 9780078746376
Author: Dinah Zike, Laurel Dingrando, Nicholas Hainen, Cheryl Wistrom
Publisher: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill School Pub Co
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Chapter 3.4, Problem 26SSC
Interpretation Introduction

Interpretation:

The way the law of definite proportions applies to compounds is to be determined.

Concept introduction:

The compound is made up of two or more than two elements in the same proportions by mass; where the mass of both elements participates to form compounded mass. The ratio is different for different compounds but the proportions by mass fixed.

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Answer to Problem 26SSC

The mass of compounds is determined by the law of definite proportion.

Explanation of Solution

A chemical compound is always made up of the fixed same proportion of elements by mass.

“The law of definite proportions” defines the mass composition of a substance.

For example: a sodium chloride compound is composed of one atom of sodium and one atom of chlorine. So, there are fixed proportions of sodium and chlorine to form a compound (sodium chloride).

Conclusion

By applying the law of definite proportions, the compound formation is fixed in the ratio/ and fixed molecular formula.

Chapter 3 Solutions

Chemistry: Matter and Change

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