Physics of Everyday Phenomena
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ISBN: 9781259894008
Author: W. Thomas Griffith, Juliet Brosing Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 18, Problem 3E
If 112 g of silicon (Si) react completely with 64 g of oxygen (O) to form silica (SiO2). what is the atomic weight of silicon?
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