The purpose of using distilled water in the cuvette of the spectrophotometer is to calibrate the instrument. It is generally considered that distilled water shows zero absorbance and 100 % transmittance. So, to zero out the absorbance of compounds other than the analyte being determined, distilled water is used as a blank.
If the unknown being determined is prepared using ethanol as the base solution, the blank used must be ethanol. This is because absorbance if any from the solvent, ethanol must be zeroed out as when the measurement of the actual unknown is being made, the absorbance of the solvent does not interfere.
Explanation:
Because a large amount of energy is required to break the strong inter-ionic attraction.
CaS => Ca2+ & S2-
Easy peasy! All we need to do is plug this formula into our calculator:
-log(M)
So, we'd plug in -log(.2), which is 0.7 :)
Answer:
2 sig figs.
Explanation:
Sig Fig Rules:
Any non-zero digit is a significant figure.
Any zeros between 2 non-zero digits are significant figures.
Trailing zeros after the decimal are significant figures.
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