LEARNING TASK NO.

Composition Stoichiometry

A. Mole Relationship from Chemical Formulas:

a) Determine the number of moles of chloride ions in 2.53 mol ZnCl 2.
b) Calculate the number of moles of each element in 1.25 mol glucose (C 6H12O6).
c) How many molecules of oxygen atoms are present in 5.00 mol diphosphorus
pentoxide?
d) Calculate the number of moles of hydrogen atoms in 11.5 mol water.
e) A sample of ethanol (C2H5OH) has a mass of 45.6 g. How many carbon atoms
does the sample contain? How many hydrogen atoms are present? How many
oxygen atoms are present?

B. Percent Composition from Chemical

a) What is the percent of C & H in C2H6 ?
b) What is the percent of each element in Al2 (SO3)3 ?

C. Empirical Formula
a) What is the empirical formula for a compound which is 75 % C and 25 % H?
b) What is the empirical formula for a compound which has 48.64 % C, 8.16 % H,
43.20 % O
c) What is the empirical formula of 40.68 % C, 5.08 % H, and 54.24 % O?
d) A blue solid is found to contain 36.894% N and 63.16% O. What is the empirical
formula for this solid?
e) What is the empirical formula for a compound that contains 10.89% Mg, 31.77%
Cl, and 57.34% O?

D. Molecular Formula
a) Succinic acid is a substance produced by lichens. Chemical analysis indicates it is
composed of 40.68% C, 5.08% H, and 54.24% O and has a molar mass of 118.1
g/mol. Determine the empirical and molecular formulas for succinic acid.
b) A colorless liquid composed of 46.68% N and 53.32% O has a molar mass of
60.01 g/mol. What is the molecular formula?
 REACTION STOICHIOMETRY
II. Solve the following problems:
1. The octane in gasoline burns according to the following equation:
2 C8H18 + 25 O2 → 16 CO2 + 18 H2O

a. How many moles of O2 are needed to react fully with 6 moles of octane?

b. How many moles of CO2 can form from 0.5 mol of octane?

2. The removal of hydrogen sulfide from sour natural gas occurs by the reaction
2 H2S + SO2 → 3 S + 2 H2O

a. What mass of sulfur would be produced from 100 grams of hydrogen sulfide?

b. Determine the mass of water produced for every kilogram of sulfur dioxide used in the
process.

3. How many moles of NO can be produced by the reaction of 2.5 moles of NH 3 with 3.5 moles of
O2 according to the balanced equation
4 NH3 + 5 O2 → 4 NO + 6 H2O

Which is the limiting reactant in this process?

4. When 22.0 g NaCl and 21.0 g H2SO4 are mixed and react according to the equation below, which
is the limiting reagent? What is the theoretical yield of sodium sulfate ?

2NaCl + H2SO4  Na2SO4 + 2HCl 

5. Calculate
(a) the theoretical yield and

(b) the percent yield, if 43.0 grams of liquid SO 2Cl2 is produced from the reaction

of 26.0 g of gaseous SO2 with enough Cl2. Write the balanced equation for the

reaction.
6.34.62 mL of 0.1510 M NaOH was needed to neutralize 50.0 mL of an H 2SO4 solution. What is the
concentration of the original sulfuric acid solution?

7.A 0.9182 g sample of CaBr2 is dissolved in enough water to give 500. mL of solution. What is the
calcium ion concentration in this solution?

8.A 20.00 mL sample of 0.1015 M nitric acid is introduced into a flask, and water is added until the
volume of the solution reaches 250. mL. What is the concentration of nitric acid in the final
solution?