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Friday, November 13, 2015
Hydrates and Formula of a Hydrate
On Friday we learned about Hydrates, a hydrate is a compound that contains water as part of its structure it is crystalline structure. The amount of water in a hydrate can be determined by heating all the water out we did a lab yesterday about hydrates and getting the water out of a hydrate to determine the mass of the anhydrous salt in the compound. The compound that we removed the water from was CuSO4 * xH2O. The amount of water that we found ended up being 5 so its name was Copper (II) Sulfate Pentahydrate it was this really pretty blue crystal that when we heated turned all gray and ashy and it was actually pretty cool.
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Good post. You explained what you did in the lab very well.
ReplyDeleteThank you for explaining the lab clearly, it explains the concept of a Hydrate and how to find the formula of one very well.
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