Christmas MT's answer to Hellooo's Secondary 3 Chemistry question.

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x and y represents the number of H2O molecules in one mol. of the salts.

The steps to derive the formulae of both salts are exactly the same.

Assume that you are working with 1 mol. of the salt so you can use the Mr of the molecules as it is during calculations.


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