A solution contains 80g of ammonium chloride in 450g of water. Calculate the concentration in terms of mass percentage of the solution. Plz answer all these questions.
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Explanation:
Concentration is the measure of how much of a given substance is mixed with another substance. Solutions can be said to be dilute or concentrated. When we say that vinegar is 5% acetic acid in water, we are giving the concentration. If we said the mixture was 10% acetic acid, this would be more concentrated than the vinegar solution.
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Figure 13.4.1 : The solution on the left is more concentrated than the solution on the right because there is a greater ratio of solute (red balls) to solvent (blue balls) particles. The solution particles are closer together. The solution on the right is more dilute (less concentrated). (CC-SA-BY-3.0 Tracy Poulsen).
A concentrated solution is one in which there is a large amount of solute in a given amount of solvent. A dilute solution is one in which there is a small amount of solute in a given amount of solvent. A dilute solution is a concentrated solution that has been, in essence, watered down. Think of the frozen juice containers you buy in the grocery store. What you have to do is take the frozen juice from inside these containers and usually empty it into 3 or 4 times the container size full of water to mix with the juice concentrate and make your container of juice. Therefore, you are diluting the concentrated juice. When we talk about solute and solvent, the concentrated solution has a lot of solute versus the dilute solution that would have a smaller amount of solute.
The terms "concentrated" and "dilute" provide qualitative methods of describing concentration. Although qualitative observations are necessary and have their place in every part of science, including chemistry, we have seen throughout our study of science that there is a definite need for quantitative measurements in science. This is particularly true in solution chemistry. In this section, we will explore some quantitative methods of expressing solution concentration.
Mass Percent
There are several ways of expressing the concentration of a solution by using a percentage. The mass/mass percent (% m/m) is defined as the mass of a solute divided by the mass of a solution times 100:
%m/m=massofsolutemassofsolution×100%(13.4.1)
mass of solution = mass of solute + mass solvent
If you can measure the masses of the solute and the solution, determining the mass/mass percent is easy. Each mass must be expressed in the same units to determine the proper concentration.
Suppose that a solution was prepared by dissolving 25.0g of sugar into 100.0g of water.
The mass of the solution is
mass of solution = 25.0g sugar + 100.0g water = 125.0 g
The percent by mass would be calculated by:
Percent by mass=25.0g sugar125.0g solution×100%=20.0%sugar(13.4.2)