What would have happened to your results if during the dehydration some of the copper (ii) sulfate splatter out of the crucible - would your results show more, less, or the same amount of water in the hydrate?

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Tiana

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1 December, 13:38

What would have happened to your results if during the dehydration some of the copper (ii) sulfate splatter out of the crucible - would your results show more, less, or the same amount of water in the hydrate?

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Madden Fritz · Answer 1

Answer : The results would show more amount of water in the hydrated sample.

Explanation:

The amount of water of crystallization can be found by taking the masses of hydrated copper sulfate and anhydrous copper sulfate.

The difference in masses indicates the mass of water lost during dehydration process.

If during dehydration process, some of the copper sulfate spatters out of the crucible, then this would give us less mass for anhydrous sample than the actual.

As a result, the difference in masses of hydrated sample and the anhydrous sample would be more.

Therefore the results would show more amount of water in the hydrated sample.