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Describe how the knowledge of the percent composition by mass of an unknown compound can help us identify the compound.

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If you have a compound with an unknown formula and a percent mass of each element in the compound, you can find the relative ratio of each element in the compound. If there is 100 g of that compound, then each percent of the ...

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