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Small Amounts of Oxygen Gas Can Be Produced for Laboratory

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Small amounts of oxygen gas can be produced for laboratory use by heating potassium chlorate, which causes it to decompose by the following reaction: ___KClO3(s) → ____KCl(s) + ___O2(g) (unbalanced) Balance the equation, and determine the mass of oxygen that should be formed if 15.0 g of potassium chlorate decomposes.


A) 11.7 g
B) 57.5 g
C) 173 g
D) 5.88 g
E) 86.1 g

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