Question

Empirical formula of CH3COOH?

Answer 1

Empirical formula of CH3COOH is CH2O

Answer 2

What is empirical formula?

- It is the molecular formula of a compound in the lowest terms.

What is empirical mass ?

- Relative molecular mass of empirical formula of a compound is called empirical mass of that compound.

To find,

Empirical formula of CH3COOH

Solution:

In this chemical formula,

No. of atoms of C = 2

No. of atoms of H = 4

No. of atoms of O = 2

Ratio of no. of atoms of these three elements in this compound = 2:4:2

Now, reducing this to lowest terms we get :-

1:2:1

Empirical formula is :- CH2O