The molecular formula you provided for alaxin is (C5H8)nO5. In this formula:
- C5H8 represents the repeating unit of the polymer.
- n indicates the number of repeating units.
- O5 indicates that there are 5 oxygen atoms in each repeating unit.
Since the molecular formula is expressed as a repeating unit, we can expand it to represent the full molecular formula if we know the value of n.
For a single repeating unit (n = 1), the molecular formula would simply be C5H8O5. If n is any integer, the formula would be (C5H8)nO5, indicating a polymeric structure comprised of these units.
If you're looking for the empirical formula, it can be calculated based on the overall composition without considering n. The empirical formula focuses on the simplest whole-number ratio of the elements present, but in this case, without a specific value for n, we cannot derive a more specific empirical formula than the given repeating unit.
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