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Re: How to Calculate the Percent Error in an Experimental Empirical Formula?
« Reply #15 on: November 02, 2019, 05:34:27 PM »
In the hygroscopic compounds, "all the blame" is because of the water - see Wikipedia - magnesium chloride - there is a lot of information about magnesium chloride hydrates.
In your case result is close to ~trihydrate.
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