Register
A chicken egg has mass 60g. It's shell makes up 10% of the whole egg. The shell is made of Calcium Carbonate; CaCO3. What is the mass of the Ca/ Calcium in the egg shell?​
380,207 views
9 votes
9 votes
A chicken egg has mass 60g. It's shell makes up 10% of the whole egg. The shell is made of Calcium Carbonate; CaCO3. What is the mass of the Ca/ Calcium in the egg shell?​

User Guyumu
by
3.3k points

1 Answer

15 votes
15 votes
60g•0.10=6g This is the mass of the egg shell
CaCO3: 100.09g
Ca: 40.08g
C: 12.01g
O: 16.00g•3=48.00g
Find the percentage of Ca found in Calcium Carbonate
40.08g of Ca/100.09g of CaCO3=0.40
.4•6g of CaCO3=2.4g of Ca
User Kim Burgaard
by
2.6k points
Ask a Question
Welcome to QAmmunity.org, where you can ask questions and receive answers from other members of our community.

1.6m questions

2.0m answers

Other Questions

Bison wear clothes true or false (not the clothes we wear.)
Please help sorry if it’s a little hard to read
What does it mean if your hypothesis is wrong? What do you do?
What is the molar mass of. 3 moles of iodine, 5 moles of gold, and 2.5 moles of potassium
Give one example of neutral oxides which turns colourless liquid at room temperature
Link Copied!