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Determination of Solubility Product
« on: April 04, 2006, 07:30:18 PM »
I've been racking my brain over this and it won't work out, so I created a calibration in order to determine the concentrations in test tubes of Cu2+.  This is for Copper II Tartrate, by the way.  I know the overall reaction is CuC4H4O6<->Cu2++C4H4O6.  And therefore the Ksp=[Cu2+ ][C4H4O6 ] but from my first two test tubes, where I'm supposed to find the solubility product, I have 0.049M and 0.090 for 1 and 2, respectively.  If I apply the fact that [Cu2+ ] and [tartrate] are 1:1 I get two different values for Ksp.  They are different insofar as they would always be different with different [Cu2+ ].  I'm wondering if I have to calculate [C4H4O6 ] in another way.  For the first two test tubes I mixed Copper Sulfate and Sodium Tartrate.  I look through every Chemistry resource and I get the same answers leading to my squaring of those concentrations, am I on the right path?
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Re:Determination of Solubility Product
« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2006, 03:17:50 AM »
Explain - step by step - what yopu are doing. So far your post doesn't make sense to me.

Note that tartrate anion must be charged.

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