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Answer the question below, relating your answers only to salts in the following list: Sodium chloride, anhydrous calcium chloride, copper sulphate5water?
(a) What name is given to the water in the compound copper sulphate5water?

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The name given to the water in the compound copper sulphate5water is the water of crystallization.

The fixed number of water molecules present in one formula unit of a salt is called water of crystallization.

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