A simple experiment was devised to let students determine the solubility and solubility product, K-sp, of calcium sulfate dihydrate in a first-level laboratory. The students experimentally work on an intriguing equilibrium law: the constancy of the product of the ion concentrations of a sparingly soluble salt. The determination of solubility is proposed either in an equimolar precipitation of CaSO4 center dot 2H(2)O, from which the K-sp is obtained, or working with an excess of one of the two reagents.

Solubility and Solubility Product Determination of a Sparingly Soluble Salt: A First-Level Laboratory Experiment

2012

Abstract

A simple experiment was devised to let students determine the solubility and solubility product, K-sp, of calcium sulfate dihydrate in a first-level laboratory. The students experimentally work on an intriguing equilibrium law: the constancy of the product of the ion concentrations of a sparingly soluble salt. The determination of solubility is proposed either in an equimolar precipitation of CaSO4 center dot 2H(2)O, from which the K-sp is obtained, or working with an excess of one of the two reagents.
2012
First-Year Undergraduate/General
Inorganic Chemistry
Laboratory Instruction
Physical Chemistry
Hands-On Learning/Manipulatives
Aqueous Solution Chemistry
Precipitation/Solubility
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