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What is the emperical formular for C6H6

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Benzene has empirical formula of CH

Ethylene Glycol is an organic compound.

It has a molecular formula of C6H6

Which means it has 6 carbon atoms, and 6 hydrogen atoms.

To find the empirical formula for any compound we need to know how many atoms of different types are present like in case of benzene there were 6 carbon ,and 6 hydrogen atoms

empirical formula means we need to get the simplest ratio of all these atoms, so here we would divide the each different number of atoms by 6 as all these have 6 as a common factor

6 / 6 = 1 ( for Carbon )

6 / 6 = 1 ( for Hydrogen )

Hence the empirical formula becomes : C1H1 / CH

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It’s a steppingstone in finding the molecular formula of an unknown compound.

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