Question

Lactose, C12H22O11, is a naturally occurring sugar found in mammalian milk. A 0.335 M solution of lactose in water has a density of 1.0432 g/mL at 20 o C. What is the concentration of this solution in the following units?
i) mole fraction
ii) molality
iii) mass percent

Answer 1

The molality of the solution is 0.00037 m.

What is concentration?

The term concentration refers to the amount of solute in a solution.

We have the following information;

Molarity = 0.335 M

Density =  1.0432 g/mL

Temperature = 20 o C

The molality of the solution is obtained from;

m = 0.335 M ×  1.0432 g/mL/ 1000(1.0432 g/mL) - 0.335 M (342 g/mol)

m = 0.344/1043.2 - 114.57

m =  0.344/928.63

m = 0.00037 m

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