Question

Koel was not able to understand that why water molecules are added with a dot at the end of most salts. Help her with this.

• A. To highlight that the salt is anhydrous
• B. To highlight the hydrate part of the salt
• C. Water molecules are never bonded directly
• D. To highlight that the salt is dissolved in water

Answer 1

The correct option is B

To highlight the hydrate part of the salt

To highlight the hydrate part of salt.

Any chemical compound that is loosely bound with water. Since these are loosely binded with water, we ge to see that dot before the water molecule.