Two compounds are formed by carbon and oxygen. In one compound,the percentage of carbon is $42.9\%$ and in the other,the percentage of carbon is $27.3\%$. Which law of chemical combination is illustrated by this data?

  • A
    Law of Definite Proportions
  • B
    Law of Multiple Proportions
  • C
    Law of Reciprocal Proportions
  • D
    Law of Conservation of Mass

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Who proposed the Law of Multiple Proportions?

Statement $1$: Creation or destruction of atoms is not possible.
Statement $2$: Under identical conditions of temperature and pressure,the number of atoms/molecules in a given volume of gas is not the same.

In compound $A$,$1.00 \, g$ nitrogen unites with $0.57 \, g$ oxygen. In compound $B$,$2.00 \, g$ nitrogen combines with $2.24 \, g$ oxygen. In compound $C$,$3.00 \, g$ nitrogen combines with $5.11 \, g$ oxygen. These results obey the following law:

Which of the following pairs of substances illustrates the Law of Multiple Proportions?

Hydrogen combines with oxygen to form $H_2O$ in which $16 \ g$ of oxygen combine with $2 \ g$ of hydrogen. Hydrogen also combines with carbon to form $CH_4$ in which $2 \ g$ of hydrogen combine with $6 \ g$ of carbon. If carbon and oxygen combine together then they will do so in the ratio of

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