
If every oxygen ion is combined with an aluminium ion has a charge of -2,the charge of each aluminum ion would be -3.
Uncharged Aluminum atom must need to lose it's electrons,in order to form the bond with oxygen which has vacant orbitals
ion
atom that has a positive or negative charge because it lost or gained one or more electrons
chemical bond
the attractive force that holds atoms or ions together
ionic bond
a chemical bond in which one atom loses an electron and the other atom gains electrons to form ions
chemical formula
a combination of chemical symbols and numbers to represent a substance
covalent bond
bond formed by the sharing of electrons between atoms
Answer: Strictly a laboratory analysis and can only be done using the data obtained during analysis
Explanation:
To find a solution to this problem, you need to use the data collected during the lab work. A guide could be finding the possible forms of hydrated copper chlorides in reference books. Since it's also a lab work, you can definitely compare your data with lab mates.
The formula CuxCly.zH₂O and its name chloride hydrate already gives you an idea of the possibilities of the value of the integers, hence you can take a good guess for the identity of the unknown salt and calculate the theoretical formular weight for it. From the that you can proceed to also find the mass of water and copper from your lab analysis.
I believe it is NaCl(aq) + H2O