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📅 NSB 2015🎓 HS🔄 Round 16#️⃣ Q5🌟 BONUS✍️ Short Answer

A student performs combustion analysis on a compound X containing carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen to determine its molecular formula. Given the molar mass is 76, if she combusts 1 mole of X in excess oxygen and observes 2 moles of CO2 gas and 2 moles of H2O gas as products, what is the molecular formula?

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