Answer :
What is the percent composition by mass of oxygen in magnesium oxide, MgO?
Answer: 39.7 percent
The percent composition by mass of oxygen in MgO is 65.84.
What is mass?
The mass of a thing is a measurement of how much matter it contains.
What is percent composition?
Percent composition is the way through which percentage of elements can be determine very easily. Formula:
O% = [tex]M_{A}M_{T}[/tex] ×100
Calculation of percent composition .
For MgO , the mass of oxygen atom is 16.3 and mass of Mg atom is 24.3.
By adding mass of oxygen and Mg total mass will be 40.3.
Now, put the value of given data in above equation:
O% = [tex]M_{A}M_{T}[/tex]×100O%
= 16./24.3×100.
O% = 65.84.
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