The forensic technician at a crime scene has just prepared a luminol stock solution by adding 18.0 g of luminol into a total volume of 75.0 mL of H2O. What is the molarity of the stock solution of luminol? Express your answer with the appropriate units.

1.36M

Explanation:

Luminol is a compound having the molecular formula as C8H7N3O2.

To know the molarity of the stock solution of Luminol, we shall carry out the following:

Step 1:

we shall calculate the number of mole in 18g of luminol. This is shown below:

Molar mass of C8H7N3O2 = (12x8) + (7x1) + (14x3) + (16x2)

= 96 + 7 + 42 + 32

= 177g/mol

Mass of C8H7N3O2 = 18g

Number of mole of C8H7N3O2 = ... ?

Mole = Mass / Molar Mass

Number of mole of C8H7N3O2 = 18/177 = 0.102 mole.

Step 2:

Conversion of 75.0 mL of H2O to Litre (L).

1000mL = 1L

Therefore, 75mL = 75/1000 = 0.075L

Step 3:

Determination of the molarity of the stock solution of Luminol.

Molarity is simply defined as the mole of solute per unit litre of water. Mathematically, it is represented as:

Molarity = mole / Volume

With the above formula, we can obtain the molarity of the stock solution of Luminol as follow:

Mole of C8H7N3O2 = 0.102 mole

Volume of water = 0.075L

Molarity = ... ?

Molarity = mole / Volume

Molarity = 0.102/0.075

Molarity = 1.36M

Therefore, the molarity of the stock solution of Luminol is 1.36M.