Lab 3: Colligative Property
Freezing point depression can be used to experimentally determine the molar mass of a solute in solution. Given the data in the table, please answer the questions below and determine the identity of an unknown alkali metal chloride compound.
(a) What is the boiling point elevation, ΔTb, of the solution?
(b) What is the molality, m, of the solution? (Please check the alkali metal salt choices in part d to determine the van't Hoff factor.)
(c) How many moles of the chloride salt are in the solution?
(d) What is the unknown salt?
LiCl (42.39 g/mol)
NaCl (58.44 g/mol)
KCl (74.55 g/mol)
RbCl (120.92 g/mol)