Anhydrous Salt Lab

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The purpose of this lab was to calculate the ratio of moles of water to anhydrous salt by measuring the mass of the water lost and the mass of the remaining anhydrous salt. Ultimately being able to use the ratio to determine the formula of the original hydrated salt. My hypothesis was: If we determine the correct ratio of moles of water to moles of anhydrous salt, then we will find that the water and the anhydrous salt are equal parts in the hydrate because it does not appear to contain a lot of water. This hypothesis was rejected by data. The collected data indicated that the formula of the hydrate is CuSO4· 5H2O. In order to find this formula, we had to first calculate the mass of water lost from the hydrate. So we subtracted the mass of

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