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A sample of potato starch was ground in a ball mill to give a starchlike molecule of lower molecular weight. The product analysed 0.086% phosphorus. If each molecule is assumed to contain one atom of phosphorus, what is the molecular weight of the material?

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`3.6 xx 10^(4)` amu
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