A chemist wants to make calcium nitrate. They start with 8.00 g of pure calcium oxide and an excess of dilute nitric acid. They produce 12.65 g of pure, dry anhydrous calcium nitrate crystals. What is the percentage yield of calcium nitrate? [relative atomic masses, Aᵣ: Ca, 40; N, 14; H, 1; O, 16]
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A: 54.0
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