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Question
Answer the questions below relating your answers only to salts in the following list: Sodium chloride, anhydrous calcium chloride, copper sulphate-5-water?
- What name is given to the water in the compound copper sulphate-5-water?
- If copper sulphate-5-water is heated, anhydrous coppersulphate is formed. What is its colour?
- By what means, other than healing, could you dehydrate copper sulphate-5-water and obtain anhydrous coppersulphate?
- Which one of the salts in the given list is deliquescent?
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Solution
- Water of crystallization
- White
- By heating with any dehydrating agent
- Anhydrous calcium chloride
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