A compound is found to contain 29.68 % sulfur and 70.32 % fluorine by mass. What is the empirical formula for this compound?

Explanation:

The first thing would be to calculate the number of moles of each element in the compound.

No of moles of sulfur (S) = mass/molar mass

                                        = 29.68/32.065 = 0.9256

No of moles of fluorine (F) = mass/molar mass

                                       = 70.32/18.998 = 3.7014

Then, let us find the atomic ratio of each of the element in the compound by dividing by the no of moles by the smallest no of mole:

            S            :             F

      = 1       :       = 4

Therefore, the empirical formula for the compound is

answer : third trial had the contaminated sample and the correct value for dhrxn should be 1000 kj/mol

explanation :

let us write down the given equations

equation 1 :

equation 2 :

equation 3 :

let us use hess's law to find out which 2 equations can be added to get the third equation.

let us reverse equation 2 and multiply it by 2. the new equation that we get is,

equation 4 :

let us add equation 1 & 4

the above equation is similar to equation 3 but has different value for dhrxn.

therefore third trial had the contaminated sample and the correct value for dhrxn should be 1000 kj/mol