Answer:
bent
Explanation:
The chlorite ion has been pictured in the image attached with its two main resonance contributors.
The ion has four regions of electron density as shown. On the basis of the VSEPR theory, we expect a tetrahedral geometry.
However, the ion is bent due to the effect of the lone pairs on chlorine which is the central atom in the ion. This distorts the bond angle of the ion hence the ion has a bent molecular geometry.
Answer:
Explanation:
If percentage are given then we are taking total mass is 100 grams.So, the mass of each element is equal to the percentage given.
Mass of Mg = 10.89 g
Mass of Cl = 31.77 g
Mass of O = 57.34 g
Step 1 : convert given masses into moles.
Moles of Mg=
Moles of Cl =
Moles of O =
Step 2 : For the mole ratio, divide each value of moles by the smallest number of moles calculated.
For Mg =
For Cl =
For O=
The ratio of Mg :Cl : O= 1 : 2 : 8
Hence the empirical formula is
Explanation:
what you have to do is to multiply the given grams with the ratio of grams of that certain element in it's full compound in order to isolate the compound and get the element.
because the question did not specify how many grams of NO2 is formed, we can assume that the mass is neglegible, thus 1 mole was assigned to Nitrogen.
