In the combustion of hydrogen gas, hydrogen reacts with oxygen from the air to form water vapor. hydrogen+oxygen⟶water If you burn 58.9 g of hydrogen and produce 526 g of water, how much oxygen reacted?

Explanation:

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In this case, for the reaction:

The correct way to compute the oxygen that reacted is by considering the mass of hydrogen, 58.9 g, its molar mass, 2.02 g/mol, the 2:1 mole ratio between hydrogen and oxygen and the atomic mass of that gaseous oxygen 32.00 g/mol; therefore we use the following stoichiometric procedure:

The same result could have been obtained by using the mass of water since the law of conservation of mass is obeyed here.

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