Guiding Questions
mais of the original 1000.0 hg shipment was actually water?
What to the carrect chemical formula of the chemical that the buyer recelved?
Background
look compounds that contain water molecules as integral components of their
crystals are called hydrates. The name for an lonic hydrate is derived by adding a
I term to the name for the antrydruce (meaning)"not hydrated") compound that
Indicates the number of water molecules associated with each formula unit of the
compound. The added world begins with a Greek prefis denoting the number of
water molecules and ends with "hydrare." For example, washing soda It the common
name for a hydrate of sodium carbonate containing 10 water molecules.the
systematic name is sodium carbonate decahydrate
Formulas for ionic hydrates are written by appending a vertically centered dot,a
coefficient representing the number of water molecules, and the formula for water.
The example mentioned in the previous paragraph is represented by the formulat
Na_(2)CO_(1)cdot 10H_(2)O
A shipment of anhydrous copper (II) sulfate was ordered and recelved in a crate.
The buyer nodeed that the unhydrous copper (II)wulfate, which should have been
whire in color, was now blue in color.This means that the compound contains
water and is some type of hydrate of copper (II) sulfate. Hydrates are compounds
that have a specific number of water molecules incorporated Into thelf crystal
structure due to the significant polarity of water.
The supplier contends that the shipment is the expensive anhydrous copper (II)
xulfate and just absorbed a little moisture, giving the chemical a blue appearance.
However, the buyer believes that the supplier purposefully mixed up the shipment
with a common inexpensive hydrate of copper (II)sulfate that is commercially
available. The buyer states that this can be demonstrated with a little chemistry and
wants to determine the exact ratio of water to copper (II) sulfate that exists in this
shipment.
The buyer had received 1000.0 kg of this compound In order to refine It and extract
the pure copper.
Chemical testing must be conducted to properly identify the shipment
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