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Inorganic Chemistry Forum / Re: Substance values after dissolving
« Last post by Borek on March 02, 2025, 07:08:14 AM »
This is a bit tricky, depending on how accurate result you need.

As a first approximation - if you dissolve some amount of substance into 500 mL and you take 1 mL of the solution, it is effectively as if you took just 1/500 of the initial mass of the substance (so 81,53g/500) - then just divide by the final volume to find concentration.

In reality dissolving 81,53g of KNO3 in 500 mL of water will produce more than 500 mL of the solution (finding out exact volume requires using density tables, in this particular case it will be around 530 mL), so you are not taking 1/500 but a bit less.

That being said the way we work here is: show the numbers you have gotten so far and we will start from there.
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Inorganic Chemistry Forum / Re: Substance values after dissolving
« Last post by Hunter2 on March 02, 2025, 05:32:29 AM »
First calculate the concentraton in g/l
If you know this then you also know how much is in 1 ml. This amount is transferred into 100 l.
The relationship of the elements is connected via molar mass.

Calculate the amount of KNO3 into mol then you get also the mol of K and N. Calculate this back to gramm..
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Inorganic Chemistry Forum / Substance values after dissolving
« Last post by Samotonaki on March 02, 2025, 05:15:09 AM »
Hello,

I have some difficulty calculating values after dissolving a substance. I've gotten different answers from my environment, but I'm not sure who is calculating it the right way. I hope someone here can shed some light on the issue.

We dissolve 81,53g of KN03 in 500ml of demineralised water. We then dilute 1ml of the solution into 100L of water. In the end, what will the ppm of K and N be in the 100L of water? What is the correct way to calculate these values?
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This may not fit.  We often would need to know if a sample was natural or synthetic polyisoprene.  There are a couple of good leads, like tensile strength and color.  But if we wanted a a positive test, we would check the polymer for beta sitosterol.  This was usually tested by gc/ms.  beta sitosterol should not be found in synthetic polyisoprene, but will be found in natural polyisoprene.  Good luck.
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This is really too broad of a question to answer in any useful way. The most widely used tools for molecular identification in an analytical lab would be mass spectrometry (MS), possibly interfaced with some form of chromatography. But there are dozens of varieties of MS, each one suited for particular types of analyses. The particular method you would use in any given circumstance would be specific to the type of chemical, the matrix, the precision/accuracy requirements, the likely concentration, and so on. Supplemental methods might be needed also depending on what information you need and how much information you are starting with. There are few occasions where a single method will do everything you need to do.

It's also worth pointing out that amateurs and students often assume that modern chemistry is a field where the analyst is presented with a blob of unknown stuff and tasked with determining what it is made of. In reality, though, this is not what most chemists do on a daily basis. Although some fields certainly require chemists to engage in detective work starting from a blank or nearly blank state, in most cases analytical chemists have an idea (or know exactly) what they are looking for, and most problems are more centered around sorting out the signal from the noise (which involves both chemical purification and managing analytical interferences), measuring accurate concentrations, or confirming that they do indeed have what they think they have. The modern chemical toolset is oriented accordingly around targeted rather than black box analysis.
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What is the method of identification of chemical compounds contained in plant tissue. How it is tested. What if we want to know only specific compounds, for example, those that contain copper in their composition.
How to know the chemical formula?

Analogously, a mixture of substances in solvent. How to check what specific compounds are found in it.
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High School Chemistry Forum / Re: IUPAC name
« Last post by Borek on February 24, 2025, 03:34:03 PM »
Yes, that's exactly the problem - but in the end it depends on what you consider a valid substituent. Once you assume isopropyl is an acceptable substituent you don't have to worry about its internal structure.
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High School Chemistry Forum / Re: IUPAC name
« Last post by ve_90 on February 24, 2025, 01:22:17 PM »
Okay, now it's clear to me. However, my doubt is this, beyond the name: is it correct to write 4-ethyl-5-isopropyl-3-heptene, since according to IUPAC rules, the longest chain containing the double bond must not only be the longest but also the one with the most possible substituents?
If I consider the isopropyl group as a substituent, the substituents on the main chain are 2, not 3 (unlike 4,5-diethyl-6-methylhept-3-ene).
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High School Chemistry Forum / Re: IUPAC name
« Last post by Borek on February 24, 2025, 10:23:51 AM »
It should be 4,5-diethyl-6-methylhept-3ene.

"Isopropyl" is one of these names that are still acceptable, but not preferred. 4-ethyl-5-isopropyl-3-heptene clearly and unambiguously describes the molecule, so using it won't produce serious problems in communication with other chemists (but can be disallowed in formal context of publication).
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High School Chemistry Forum / Re: IUPAC name
« Last post by ve_90 on February 24, 2025, 08:48:29 AM »
Sorry, can you explain it to me better?
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