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Nitrogen forms a number of compounds with oxygen, for example, Nitrous oxide, N2O is 63.65% by mass.

A second compound, which contains two atoms of nitrogen per molecule, is 36.86% N by mass. How many oxygen atoms are in the second compound? Write your answer as a whole number.

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Answer: there are 3 atoms of oxygen in the compound, and the compound is N2O3

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Nitrogen forms a number of compounds with oxygen, for example, Nitrous oxide, N2O-example-1
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