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Adding tetrachloromethane, which changes colour first?
« on: March 22, 2016, 06:18:47 PM »
In a separating funnel there are these two layers

Top layer: iodine dissolved in cyclohexane
Bottom layer: iodine in water

If I add CCl4 to the solution and shake, which layer changes colour first?

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Re: Adding tetrachloromethane, which changes colour first?
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2016, 09:41:32 PM »
Hint: Which layer of liquid will iodine be most readily dissolve in?
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Re: Adding tetrachloromethane, which changes colour first?
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2016, 11:32:37 AM »
The cyclohexane, so that is already purple and the bottom layer should be clear at the start. But will the bottom layer still have some of the iodine in it? and I don't know what will happen when the CCl4 is added

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Re: Adding tetrachloromethane, which changes colour first?
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2016, 12:53:28 PM »
This is a problem. Carbon tetrachloride is miscible with cyclohexane. For mole fraction of CCl4 greater then 0.33 density of the carbon tetrachloride-cyclohexane solution is greater then that of water. Hence violet solution may be in upper layer or in bottom layer depending on amount of carbon tetrachloride added.
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Re: Adding tetrachloromethane, which changes colour first?
« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2016, 09:27:35 PM »
Molar mass of CCl4: 153.81 g mol-1
Molar mass of I2: 253.80894 g mol-1
Molar mass of cyclohexane: 84.16 g mol-1

I think CCl4 should be most soluble in CCl4(Intermolecular forces of CCl4 and I2 are more comparable because of closer molar mass). But as @AWK said, CCl4 and cyclohexane are miscible, so I2 may dissolve in the 'mixture' of them.
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