If you are given some copper sulphate crystals, how would you proceed to prepare its saturated solution at room temperature? Give practical details. How can you show that your solution is really saturated?
Take 100 g of distilled water in a beaker. To this add one gram of copper sulphate crystals.
Stir this mixture with the help of a glass rod and dissolve copper sulphate crystals. Similarly, go on dissolving more of copper sulphate, (1 gram) at a time with constant and vigorous stirring. A stage is reached when no more copper sulphate dissolves. It is called the saturated solution at this temperature.
Take this saturated solution of copper sulphate some solution in a test tube and add some copper sulphate crystals. The crystals do not dissolve but settle down. This indicates that the solution is really saturated.