A certain amount of rubidium iodide was dissolved in #"4.6 L"#. A #"1-L"# aliquot was extracted an diluted to #"13.9 L"# to form a #"0.65 M"# solution in water. What mass of rubidium iodide was dissolved into the original solution?
2 Answers
The amount of
Explanation:
For this kind of questions, we use the formula:
To calculate the mass of rubidium iodide (
We have a 13.9 L solution with a concentration of 0.65 M, using the formula above, rewritten:
So in our 1 L solution, we had 9.035 mol
Since we took 1 L from the original solution, the 9.035 mol/L is the concentration of the original solution. We had 4.6 L of the original solution and we need the amount of mol, therefore, you guessed it, we use again the same formula!
Now we only have to convert mol
Which, when rounded to two significant figures (the lowest number given in the problem), is
Here is another way to do this problem using the extensive property of countable numbers. I also get
OVERVIEW:
Think critically through the problem... What did we do? We started with some starting mols of
That was then diluted from
Looking at the end of the question, we were given
#13.9 cancel"L" xx "0.65 mols"/cancel"L" = "9.035 mols RbI"# for every#"L"# of solution.
The number of mols in the
Mols are an extensive quantity, just like mass. If you have a greater volume of a certain concentration, you have more mols of it.
Therefore, in
#"9.035 mols RbI" xx (4.6 cancel"L")/cancel"1 L"#
#=# #"41.561 mols RbI"# in that#"4.6 L"# of solution.
Therefore, you had a mass of:
#color(blue)(m_(RbI)) = 41.561 cancel"mols RbI" xx "212.3723 g"/cancel"1 mol RbI"#
#=# #"8826.41 g"#
#-># #color(blue)("8800 g")# to two sig figs
Now think back through the problem... What did we do?
We started with some
That was then diluted