Answer the question below, relating your answers only to salts in the following list : Sodium chloride, anhydrous calicum chloride, copper sulphate-5-water ?
(a) What name is given to the water in the compound copper sulphate-5-water ?
(b) If copper sulphate-5-water is heated, anhydrous copper sulphate is formed. What is its colour ?
(c) By what means, other than heating, could you dehydrate copper sulphate-5-water and obtain anhydrous copper sulphate ?
(d) Which one of the salts in the given list is deliquescent ?
Answer the question below, relating your answers only to salts in the following list : Sodium chloride, anhydrous calicum chloride, copper sulphate-5-water ?
(a) What name is given to the water in the compound copper sulphate-5-water ?
(b) If copper sulphate-5-water is heated, anhydrous copper sulphate is formed. What is its colour ?
(c) By what means, other than heating, could you dehydrate copper sulphate-5-water and obtain anhydrous copper sulphate ?
(d) Which one of the salts in the given list is deliquescent ?
(a) Water of crystallization.
(b) White.
(c) Some salts, when exposed to atmosphere, absorbs moisture and is converted into their saturated solution. Such salts are called as deliquescent salts and the property as deliquescence.
(d) Anhydrous Calcium chloride.
(a) Water of crystallization.
(b) White.
(c) Some salts, when exposed to atmosphere, absorbs moisture and is converted into their saturated solution. Such salts are called as deliquescent salts and the property as deliquescence.
(d) Anhydrous Calcium chloride.
