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Links for the Eighth Chapter

Extra Help For Chapter 8

This video shows you how to solve a percent yield problem.

This is another video that shows you how to solve a percent yield problem.

This video explains what empirical and molecular formulas are and how to convert between them.

This video explains how to convert from empirical to molecular formula.

This video explains how to determine the empirical formula when a substance is burned in oxygen.

This video explains how to do a combustion analysis on a compound that contains only carbon and hydrogen.

This video explains how to do a combustion analysis on a compound that contains carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.

This is another video that explains how to do a combustion analysis on a compound that contains carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.

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This video explains how to determine the empirical formula using the percent composition. It also then shows how to go from empirical formula to molecular formula.

This video explains how to figure out the percent composition of a compound.

This video explains how to figure out the formula of an ionic compound that has polyatomic ions.

This is another video that explains how to figure out the formula of an ionic compound that has polyatomic ions.

Interesting Links Related to Chapter 8

This video shows the experiment pictured on page 233.

This video shows how different metals burn differently.

This shows a few more metals burning.

This explains how combustion analysis works with an animation.

If you are having trouble memorizing the polyatomic ions, this might help you.

You don’t need to know how to do this, but if you are interested, here is how to draw Lewis Structures for polyatomic ions.

Extra Problems for Chapter 8

Extra problems for Chapter 8
This gives you more practice on the problems in chapter 8. Here are the solutions.