A laboratory technician needs to make a 108-liter batch of a 20% acid solution. How can the laboratory technician combine a ba

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A laboratory technician needs to make a 108-liter batch of a 20% acid solution. How can the laboratory technician combine a ba

tch of an acid solution that is pure acid with another that is 10% to get the desired concentration?

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Gala2k [10] · Answer 1 · 2022-02-12T10:03:15+03:00

<span>12 liters of pure acid and 96 liters of 10% acid solution Using mass and component balance: Let x = liters of pure acid and y = liters of 10% acid Mass balance: x + y = 108 Component balance: 100%*x + 10%*y = 20%*108 or x + 0.1y = 21.6 Solving for x and y: x = 12 and y = 96</span>

A laboratory technician needs to make a 108​-liter batch of a 20​% acid solution. How can the laboratory technician combine a ba

A laboratory technician needs to make a 108-liter batch of a 20% acid solution. How can the laboratory technician combine a ba