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What is the percent composition of hydrogen in beryllium hydride, if 69.6g of beryllium with 15.6g of hydrogen to produce 85.2g of BeH2?

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The percent composition of hydrogen is 18.3%.

What is percent composition?

The term percent composition refers to the percentage of a particular component in a compound. It is contained as the ratio of the mass of that component to the total mass multiplied by 100.

From the law of conservation of mass, total mass of beryllium hydride(BeH2) = 85.2 g

Mass of hydrogen = 15.6 g

Percent composition of hydrogen = 15.6 g/ 85.2 g × 100/1 = 18.3%

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