What is the weight/weight % of 9.74g of sodium sulfate to a final volume of 165 mL of solution?
1 Answer
Here's what I got.
Explanation:
The problem here is that you're missing the density of the solution, which implies that you cannot use its volume to determine its mass.
The solution's percent concentration by mass,
You know that the solution contains
Now, let's say that this solution has a density of
In this case, the total mass of the solution will be
# 165 color(red)(cancel(color(black)("mL solution"))) * (rho quad "g")/(1color(red)(cancel(color(black)("mL solution")))) = (165 * rho) quad "g"#
So now that you know that you have
#100 color(red)(cancel(color(black)("g solution"))) * ("9.64 g Na"_2"SO"_4)/((165 * rho) color(red)(cancel(color(black)("g solution")))) = (5.84 * rho) quad "g Na"_2"SO"_4#
This means that the solution's percent concentration by mass is equal to
#"% m/m" = (5.84 * rho)% quad "Na"_2"SO"_4#
So if you find the density of the solution, you can plug in its value and get the solution's percent concentration by mass.