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Ascorbic acid is a compound containing of three element C,H, and O when a 0.214g sample is burned in oxyzen 0.320g of CO2 and 0.0874g H2O are formed. What is the Empirical formula of ascorbic acid?

First You need to find out limited regents here limiting regents is 2.56 mol NaCl so 2.56g NaCl * 1 mol NaCl/ 58.49 NaCl*2 mol HCl/ 2 mol NaCl* 36.46 g HCl/ 1 mol HCl = 93.50 g