A bottle of HCL is 14.0M and has a density of 1.08 grams/mL. What is the molality of the HCL?
14.0 M means 14.0 mols in 1000 mL of solution. If the solution has a density of 1.08 g/mL, then 1000 g will have a mass of 1080 grams. Then molality = mols/kg solvent. Post your work if you get stuck.
To find the molality of a solution, you need to know the moles of solute and the mass of the solvent. In this case, the solute is HCl and the solvent is the solution itself.
To determine the moles of HCl, you can use the given molarity and the volume of the solution. However, the volume of the solution is not provided. Therefore, we need additional information to calculate the moles of HCl.
On the other hand, density is given, which means we can determine the mass of the solution by using its volume and density. Then, we can use the mass of the solution and the density to calculate the mass of the solvent.
Let's assume we have a volume of 1 liter (1000 mL) of the solution. By using its density, we can find the mass of the solution:
Mass of the solution = Volume × Density
Mass of the solution = 1000 mL × 1.08 g/mL
Mass of the solution = 1080 grams
Once we have the mass of the solution, we can assume that the molar mass of HCl is 36.5 g/mol (H = 1.01 g/mol, Cl = 35.5 g/mol). Therefore, we divide the mass of HCl by its molar mass to get the number of moles:
Moles of HCl = Mass of HCl / Molar mass of HCl
Moles of HCl = 1080 grams / 36.5 g/mol
Moles of HCl = 29.6 mol
Now that we have the number of moles of HCl, we need to calculate the molality using the formula:
Molality (m) = Moles of solute / Mass of solvent (in kg)
Since the volume of the solution was unknown, we couldn't calculate the mass of the solvent directly. However, assuming the density remains constant, we can calculate the mass of the solvent by subtracting the mass of the solute (HCl) from the mass of the solution:
Mass of solvent = Mass of solution - Mass of solute
Mass of solvent = 1080 grams - 1080 grams
Mass of solvent = 0 grams
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