What is Vapor Density?
Vapour density is the density of a vapour in relation to that of hydrogen. It may be defined as mass of a certain volume of a substance divided by mass of same volume of hydrogen.
vapour density = mass of n molecules of gas / mass of n molecules of hydrogen
Therefore:
vapour density = molar mass of gas / molar mass of H2
vapour density = molar mass of gas / 2.016
vapour density = ~½ × molar mass
(and thus: molar mass = ~2 × vapour density)