What percent of calcium carbonate is oxygen?

Answer 1

Oxygen makes up #48%# of the mass of #CaCO_3#

To calculate percent composition by mass, you start by considering one mole of the given compound. The mass of one mole of calcium carbonate is 100.1 g

Of that mass,

40.1 g is due to the one mole of calcium atoms it contains.

12.0 g is due to the one mole of carbon in it, and

48.0 g is due to the three moles of oxygen atoms in one mole of #CaCO_3#

Now. to find percent composition, you take each element separately, and do this calculation:

#("mass of element" )/("molar mass of compound") xx 100#

So, for oxygen, this would be

#(48.0)/(100.1) xx100=48.0%#

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Answer 2

Luna Chen

About 48% of the oxygen in calcium carbonate (CaCO3) is present.

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Answer from HIX Tutor

When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.