Explanation:
Let us assume that 50 carbon atoms are available with possible 100 site bondings. It is given here that 94% are occupied by hydrogen (94 out of 100) and 6% (6 out of 100) are occupied by chlorine atom.
Therefore, moles of carbon = 50
moles of hydrogen = 94
moles of chlorine = 6
Therefore,
Mass of 50 carbon atoms = [tex]50 \times 12.01 g/mol[/tex] = 600.5 g/mol
Mass of 94 hydrogen atoms = [tex]94 \times 1.008 g/mol[/tex] = 94.752 g/mol
Mass of 6 chlorine atoms = [tex]6 \times 35.45 g/mol[/tex] = 212.7 g/mol
Therefore, concentration of chlorine is as follows.
[tex]C_{cl} = \frac{m_{cl}}{m_{c} + m_{H} + m_{cl}}[/tex]
= [tex]\frac{212.7}{907.952} \times 100[/tex]
= 23.42%
thus, we can conclude that the concentration of Cl is 23.42%.
