Cellulose, the major component of plant cell walls has an empirical formula of C6H10O5.  One of the largest known Redwood trees, The Lindsey Creek Redwood had a mass of 3.3 x 106kilograms at the time (1905) it was uprooted and felled by a storm.  Assuming trees are composed of 45 % cellulose, calculate the moles of carbon contained in the cellulose of the

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Cellulose, the major component of plant cell walls has an empirical formula of C6H10O5.  One of the largest known Redwood trees, The Lindsey Creek Redwood had a mass of 3.3 x 106kilograms at the time (1905) it was uprooted and felled by a storm.  Assuming trees are composed of 45 % cellulose, calculate the moles of carbon contained in the cellulose of the Lindsey Creek Redwood.

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