(a) What name is given to the water in the compound copper sulphate-5-water?
(b) If copper sulphate-5-water is heated, anhydrous copper sulphate is formed. What is its colour?
(c) By what means, other than healing, could you dehydrate copper sulphate-5-water and obtain anhydrous copper sulphate?
(d) Which one of the salts in the given list is deliquescent?
Answers:
(a) Water of crystallization is the name is given to the water in the compound copper sulphate-5-water
(b) The colour of the formed anhydrous copper sulphate is White.
(c) You could dehydrate copper sulphate-5-water and obtain anhydrous copper sulphate by heating with any dehydrating agent.
(d) Anhydrous calcium chloride salt