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If a saturated open chain hydrocarbon has 50 hydrogen atoms, how many carbon atoms are present? g

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Since there are many hydrocarbons, we'll work with the most common one, methane. Methane's formula is:


CH_(4)

Which means there are 4 hydrogen atoms to every carbon atom.


If there are 50 hydrogen atoms:

50 / 4 = 12,5 ≈ 13 carbon atoms.


Hope it helped,


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