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Practice with Formulas

I would like you now to practice identifying types of formulas and figuring out other formulas from them. (These are also found in exercise 8 in your workbook.) Check your answers below before continuing with the other parts of this lesson.

Practice

Identify each of the following as one of the following types of formulas: empirical, molecular, structural, condensed structural, skeletal structural. In each case write out all of the other formulas.

C3H8
C-C-C-C
CH3CH2CH3
CH3
H
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H-C-H
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H

 

Answers

empirical formula molecular formula complete structural formula condensed structural formula sekeletal structural formula
C3H8 C3H8 H H H
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H-C-C-C-H
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H H H		 CH3CH2CH3 C-C-C
C2H5 C4H10 H H H H
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H-C-C-C-C-H
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H H H H		 CH3CH2CH2CH3 C-C-C-C
C3H8 C3H8 H H H
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H-C-C-C-H
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H H H		 CH3CH2CH3 C-C-C
CH3 C2H6  H H
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H-C-C-H
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H H		 CH3CH3 C-C
CH4 CH4 H
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H-C-H
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H		 CH4 C

 

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