Heating 24.50 g of pure until it decomposes produces 10.00 g of gas and a solid residue of

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Problem

Heating 24.50 g of pure

\mathrm{KClO_3}

until it decomposes produces 10.00 g of

\mathrm{O_2}

gas and a solid residue of

\mathrm{KCl}

. Write the balanced chemical equation for this decomposition reaction using the smallest whole-number coefficients.