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Offline mana

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Li2SO4 solubility in water
« on: August 01, 2023, 04:02:36 AM »
hi all
as you know, Li2SO4 is a good water soluble salt and it's dissolution is endothermic.
 I have tried some Li2SO4 in water, it was dissolved in room temperature easily, but when I heated the solution I expected to see it's solubility decreases and see the Li2SO4 solid in my test tube but it didn't happen I heated the test tube until the water bath was boiling and the amount of water in my test tube decreased as well.
by the way, my question is why the solubility didn't decrease by heating?
thanks in advance for your help

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Re: LiSO4 solubility in water
« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2023, 04:04:08 AM »
here is the Li2SO4 solubility diagram :

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Re: Li2SO4 solubility in water
« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2023, 05:04:06 AM »
How you can see in the diagram ( yellow curve) the soloubility is more or less the same over the whole temperature range. A slightly decrease can be seen.
To see an effect you have to dissolve to the soloubility limit about 342 g/l at 25 °C

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Re: Li2SO4 solubility in water
« Reply #3 on: August 01, 2023, 05:11:46 AM »
Do you have details of the measurements you recorded? For example volume of solvent, mass of solute, temperatures. Also how did you determine whether or not you had a saturated solution at any stage in your experiment?

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Re: Li2SO4 solubility in water
« Reply #4 on: August 01, 2023, 07:43:19 AM »
Whilst considering these questions you might also like to read about nucleation. Wikipedia has a quite accessible description of this phenomenon.

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