(Originais Teachy 2024) - Question Medium of Chemistry

When investigating the composition of a gas formed by fluorine and oxygen, the chemist John Dalton noticed that when combined with fluorine, oxygen formed two distinct oxides, where the ratio of the masses of oxygen to a fixed mass of fluorine was always 1:1 in the first oxide and 1:2 in the second oxide. This observation was crucial for the development of Dalton's Law of Multiple Proportions, which states that when two elements form more than one compound, the masses of one element that combine with a fixed mass of the second element are in a ratio of small integers. Based on this context and the concept of ponderal laws, answer: 1) Explain how Dalton's discovery is related to the basic principles of the atomic theory he proposed. 2) If the mass of fluorine that combines with 16g of oxygen to form the first oxide is 18g, what is the mass of fluorine that combines with 32g of oxygen in the second oxide?