Nanotechnology has become an important field, with applications ranging from high-density data storage to the design of €œnano machines.€ One common building block of nanostructured architectures is manganese oxide nanoparticles. The particles can be formed from manganese oxalate nanorods, the formation of which can be described as follows:
Mn2+(aq) + C2O4 2-(aq) ‡Œ MnC2O4(aq) K1 = 7.9 × 103
MnC2O4(aq) + C2O42-(aq) ‡Œ Mn(C2O4) 22-(aq) K2 = 7.9 × 101
Calculate the value for the overall formation constant for Mn(C2O4)222:

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