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10.6 Exercise 19

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What is the percent by mass of titanium in rutile, a mineral that contains titanium and oxygen, if structure can be described as a closest packed array of oxide ions with titanium ions in one-half of the octahedral holes? What is the oxidation number of titanium?

OpenStax Chemistry 2e, 10.6 Lattice Structures in Crystalline Solids, exercise 19

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