Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, is water soluble and cannot be produced by the human body. Each day, a person's diet should include a source of vitamin C, such as orange juice. Ascorbic acid has a molecular formula of C6H8O6 and a gram-formula mass of 176 grams per mole.77 In the space in your answer booklet, show a numerical setup for calculating the percent composition by mass of oxygen in ascorbic acid. [1] |