Q5 of 22 Page 113

Rani prepared carbon monoxide in the laboratory. It contained 15g of carbon and 20g of oxygen. Ram also prepared carbon monoxide but using another method. It contained 42.9% of carbon. Show that the data of Rani and Ram are in accordance with the Law of Definite Proportions.

Law of Definite Proportion says that a pure chemical compound prepared by any chemical method contains the same element in a fixed ratio by their masses. So here the mass percentage of carbon calculated by Rani’s data give the same result as Ram. It can be as followed:-

Mass of an element in the compound X100


Sum of all the elements in the compound


= (15÷35) X100


=42.9% of carbon


Hence, the elements of the compound are in proportion.


More from this chapter

All 22 →