Copper Chloride Lab Report

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Water (a solvent) can dissolve copper chloride (a solute). Substance X didn’t dissolve any of the solvents until it was combined with water and detergent. Copper chloride is probably ionic because it was able to dissolve in water. Since water molecules have slightly positive hydrogens and slightly negative oxygens, the positive part of copper chloride is attracted to the oxygen in water and the negative part of copper chloride is attracted to the hydrogens in water. So it’s ionic because of its ability to dissolve in water. The solute, iodine, and the solvent, substance x, are non-polar because when they were mixed with water they did not dissolve. So, they were insoluble because the water molecule didn’t have anything to be attracted to. …show more content…

So, the slightly polar water molecules aren’t attracted to substance x, so substance x doesn’t mix with water. The copper chloride and water didn’t mix with the iodine and substance x because substance x is non polar. So, the slightly polar water molecules aren’t attracted to substance x, so substance x doesn’t mix with water. The detergent made the two solutions mix because part of the detergent’s molecule is polar and the other part is non polar. So, test tube 1 mixed with the polar part of the detergent and test tube 4 mixed with the non-polar part of the detergent, which allowed both test tubes to mix together. Since sugar can dissolve in water it is a polar molecule. Substance x (which is probably oil) is a nonpolar bond, so sugar won’t be soluble in it since polar bonds aren’t attracted to non-polar bonds. Since all the water molecules stick together when dropped on to the penny, the property of cohesion was evaluated. Also, since the molecules stuck to the penny the property of adhesion was also evaluated. The results turned out the way they did because water has hydrogen bonds which makes its properties of cohesion and adhesion stronger than those of

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