Question

What is the percent composition of cobalt (IV) chlorite? If so, can you explain the process?

Answer 1

cobalt (IV) chlorite
CoCl2

Answer 2

Percent composition in Cobalt or chlorine?

Answer 3

Co = 58.933 g/mol
Cl = 35.065 g/mol (you have 2 chlorine here)

now when you wan't to calculate how many % the cobalt part is. You divide 58.933 by 100 and then multiply by 129.063. Then you get 45.66%. The chlorine part must be 100-45.66= 54.34%.

To be sure: (70.13*100)/129.063 = 54.3378 % = 54.34%

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Answer 4

Thank you! That really helped a lot!