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Offline CoryK

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Sulfuric acid and water ratio
« on: June 03, 2008, 02:53:53 PM »
Hi

This is my first time posting. I am trying to figure a problem that was giving to me at work, but I'm not a chemistry major. I did some searching through my chemistry book, but could not find anything to start with. Here is my delima, I have sulfuric acid at 149 Fahrenheit mix with water at ambient temperature, what ratio of water to sulfuric acid do I need to maintain the solution (acid & water) at 120 Fahrenheit? Any idea would be very helpful and appreciated as I am delaying my project for this.

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Re: Sulfuric acid and water ratio
« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2008, 03:57:21 PM »
Obviously as long as all you know about the temperature of water is that it is "ambient" nothing can be calculated. Simple heat balance approach will not work as sulfuric acid gets hot when diluted - at least if it is concentrated. So the answer is - not enough data.
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