What is the mass of oxygen in a $233.0*g$ mass of carbon dioxide?

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Answer 1 · 2017-04-08T20:22:47

$"Mass of oxygen"-=170*g$ .

We calculate the molar quantity of carbon dioxide is........

$(233*g)/(44.0*g*mol^-1)=5.30*mol$

Now, clearly, if there are $5.30*mol$ $CO_2$ , there are $10.6*mol$ $"oxygen atoms"$ . Do you agree?

And thus mass of oxygen $-=$ $10.6*molxx16.0*g*mol^-1=??g$ .

What is the mass of oxygen in a 233.0*g233.0*g mass of carbon dioxide?