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If a sugar has 11 oxygen atoms, how many hydrogen atoms does it contain?

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Since simple sugars follow the Cn(H2O)n formula, if you had 11 oxygen atoms, this would produce the simple sugar formula of C11H22O11. Therefore, there should be 22 hydrogen atoms.
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Since simple sugars follow the Cn(H2O)n formula, if you had 11 oxygen atoms, this would produce the simple sugar formula of C11H22O11. Therefore, there should be 22 hydrogen atoms.
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