Question

What is the empirical formula of ch3cooh?

Answer 1

The empirical formula of ch3cooh is C2H4O2

Answer 2

Answer:- the empirical formula of acetic acid (CH3COOH) is CH2O

How?? Just see below

We know that empirical formula is the simplest or lowest formula of a compound, which gives the simplest ratio of whole numbers of atoms of various elements present in one molecule of the compound.

So CH3COOH we can write,

C2H4O2 (as carbon atom is 2, hydrogen atom is 3+1=4 and oxygen is 2)

Now ratio is 2:4:2 so the simplest ratio will be 1:2:1

Hence the empirical formula will be CH2O

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