Questions tagged [aqueous-solution]
For questions relating to compounds dissolved in water and resulting reactions and acid-base equilibria.
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Can other substances be dissolved in a saturated solution?
If I have a liter of water fully saturated with sucrose would it be possible to dissolve something like salt or any other substance in the water? Or when the solution is saturated, is it impossible to ...
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Is "Sulfuric acid... makes a poor electrolyte... very little of it will dissociate into ions" really true? What does that actually mean?
While researching chromate conversion coating for edits to this answer in Space Exploration SE, I came upon the following passage in Corrosion Resistance of Stainless Steel to Sulfuric Acid
Sulfuric ...
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How much can the pH change through dilution?
Consider an acidic solution with Hydrogen ion concentration, $\ce{[H+]}$ of $10^{-5}\:\mathrm{M}$. Since $\:\mathrm{pH} = -\log \ce{[H+]}$ the $\:\mathrm{pH}$ of solution is $5$. Suppose we dilute ...
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What might serve as an initial starting photocatalyst for this large water-splitting solar simulator?
Question: What might serve as an initial starting photocatalyst for this large water-splitting solar simulator? Surely there must have been some planned experiments!
The Gizmodo article Insane Light ...
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How to derive the conductivity titration curve which accounts for salt formation
I derived an equation that gave me the volume of base required to get a certain $\mathrm{pH}$:
In a titration between a weak acid $\ce{HA}$ and weak base $\ce{B}$ (adding base into acid solution) the ...
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Why is there a decrease in the total volume when NaOH dissolves in water?
When a solute is added to a solvent, the volume of the solution should be equal to the sum of the individual volume of the solute and solvent (i.e total volume), right? But why is there a decrease in ...
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Is there a soluble salt, or compound that when dissolved in water results in a solution with density less than pure water?
Generally water soluble salts tend to 'fit between' the molecules of water such that the volume of the resulting solution does not increase much relative to the volume and added mass of the salt. So ...
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Reaction between alumina and aqueous sodium hydroxide, which one's right?
My chemistry textbook has a rather annoying irregularity.
It cites two different reactions for the same set of reactants (aluminium oxide, sodium hydroxide and water) without the slightest mention of ...
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Aspirin Hydrolysis at pH 2
Conducting an experiment, I found that very little salicylic acid was evolved performing hydrolysis at $\mathrm{pH \ 2}$ and at $\pu{45 ^\circ C}$. In fact, far more salicylic acid was evolved at $\...
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How to Convert Sucrose to Glucose and Fructose
If you have some sort of sports drink that contains sucrose, how would you take that sucrose and break it down into its components, glucose and fructose? I know that sucrose + water will break it ...
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Can I synthesize iron acetate like this?
The oxidation state of the iron doesn't matter too much; I am just trying to make an attractive red-brown ink. Here are some instructions I prescribed to a friend.
Here's an approximately decent ...
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Electrolysis of aqueous copper (II) nitrate
There are two copper blocks sitting in the $\ce{Cu(NO3)2 (aq)}$ solution, a battery is attached onto both of them, providing enough energy to start the reaction.
Since solid pieces of copper are ...
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Balancing reaction between copper and nitric acid given the ratio of formed nitrogen oxides
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$\ce{Cu}$ reacts with $\ce{HNO3}$ according to the equation
$$\ce{Cu + HNO3 -> Cu(NO3)2 + NO + NO2 + H2O}$$
If $\ce{NO}$ and $\ce{NO2}$ are formed in 2:3 ratio, what is coefficient of $\ce{...
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Calculating approximate pH of polyprotic acids
When I took up ionic equilibria and titrations after a long break, I found it hard to solve the questions regarding pH calculations of polyprotic acds. Consider these two questions as examples:-
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How is hydration free energy of a solute measured experimentally?
I am reading a paper (Shirts, M. R.; and Pitera, J. W. and Swope, W. C. and Pande, V. S. J. Chem. Phys. 2003, 119, 5740-5761). Near the beginning of the paper (page 5745), the authors state:
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