What are the mass percentages of the oxides MgO, FeO, and SiO 2 in pyroxene, MgFeSi 2

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What are the mass percentages of the oxides MgO, FeO, and SiO2 in pyroxene, MgFeSi2O6? Give your answers in whole numbers.
(a) How many kilograms of silica are in 225 kg of pyroxene?
(b) If 325 kg of olivine and 225 kg of pyroxene have crystallized out of the 1000 kg of magma, what is the mass percentage of silica in the remaining liquid?

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Conceptual Physical Science

ISBN: 978-0134060491

6th edition

Authors: Paul G. Hewitt, John A. Suchocki, Leslie A. Hewitt

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