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In the laboratory, a student pipettes of the same sodium sulfate solution into each of nine flasks. She adds a different volume of one barium chloride solution to each flask. A white precipitate of barium sulfate forms: . She filters, dries and weighs the precipitate from each flask. The figure shows the mass of precipitate against the volume of barium chloride solution added. The two straight parts of the graph meet at the point marked on it; read both of its values from the figure. The precipitate is pure barium sulfate. She does not know either molarity. Atomic masses in : O 16, S 32, Ba 137. Assume that the volumes of the two solutions add.
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Work it out on paper first. It is fine to get stuck or make a mistake: that is how we learn. When you are ready, go through the solution one step at a time, and check each step against your own.
Given. of sodium sulfate in each flask. From the figure: the break is at of barium chloride, and the flat part is at . Molar mass of : .
Plan. On the rising part, barium chloride is the limiting reagent. On the flat part, sulfate is used up, so the precipitate tells us the moles of sulfate. The break is where the two are in the ratio of the equation.
Step 1. Moles of precipitate. , that is .
Step 2. Sodium sulfate. Each mole of needs one mole of , so the flask held of it in . Molarity .
Step 3. Barium chloride. At the break, of has been added in . Molarity .
Step 4. Precipitate with . This is before the break, so barium chloride limits. It brings . Mass: .
Step 5. Chloride ions at the break. Each gives chloride ions, which stay in solution: . The volume is . Molarity .
Answer: (a) . (b) . (c) . (d) . (e) .
Check. At the break the moles of the two salts are equal: . The point at lies on the rising line, a little above , as the figure shows.
Watch out. Dividing the chloride by alone gives . The barium chloride solution brought its own water, so the volume at the break is .
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