How much water should be added to 25gm of copper sulphate to obtain 25% copper sulphate solution?
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Answer : 175 g of water should be added to make 8%/w solution of cuso4
Mol. wt of cuso4.5h20 is (63+32+48+9) =249
Means 249 g of cuso4 contain 90 g of h20
So 1 gram of cuso4 contain( 90÷249)
So 25 g of cuso4 will have (90÷249)×25 = 9.0 grm of water (approx) and 16 g of cuso4
For making 8% by wt ( density of water 1g/ml)
8÷100= 16÷(25+W) ,
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where desolved substance is cuso4.5h20 which is 25 g in W g of h20
W= 175 gram
This sounds like a homework question, so I won’t answer it but I’ll point you in the right direction. Work out how many grams of copper sulphate you need to make an 8% solution in a litre of water and remember the relationship between volume and mass of pure water. From there you should be able to create an equation to solve your problem.