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Originally Posted by FRS Justin
Ok Mike I know your smarter than me on this so can you please explain how nitrous is not 33% oxygen. My math is: nitrous is made of 2 molecules of nitrogen and 1 molecule of oxygen. So I took 100representing the complete unit and divided it by 3 representing the molecules and got 33.3333333333repeating
I'm confused
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the atoms are not the same atomic weight. oxygen is 16, and nitrogen is 14.007. if you take 14.007+14.007+16 = 44.014. then take 16/44.014, you get .364, which is 36.4%.