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Offline ETM98

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Calculating osmolarity
« on: June 12, 2009, 07:23:53 AM »
Can some one show me how to do this problem.
I have a few of them to do and just need this one completed as an example.

Calculate osmolarity of 6.5% w/v Na2SO4.

Relative atomic masses (amu): O = 16.0, Na = 23.0, S = 32.1

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Re: Calculating osmolarity
« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2009, 07:44:41 AM »
Change the w/v concentration to molarity. When the salt dissociates fully, the osmolarity is result of multiplication molarity with the number of ions from one particle. For example 1 mol/L NaCl is 2 osmol/L.

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