This has stumped me for days and I was hoping someone could help me out.
Imagine the lab scenario with some arbitrary values:
You have a beaker with a measured 10mL of HCl (unknown Molarity) which you weigh the solution as 10g. You need to find out the mass of the solvent.Ultimately, I need to determine the Molarity of the solution but I need the
mass of solvent(the water in the HCl solution) to determine the
mass of solute which will allow me to determine the
moles of solute necessary for the
Molarity.
10g
solution-
gsolvent=
_Y_gsolute_Y_gsolute x 1 mol HCl/(1.008g+35.45g)=
_X_mol HCl_X_mol HCl solute/10mL HCl solution =
Molarity of HCl solutionPeople have been telling me I need to have density to obtain the mass of solvent but I don't know how I'd get that.