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Consider a rubbing alcohol solution sold in local stores/pharmacies which contains 50% isopropyl alcohol (molar mass of 60 g/mol) in water (molar mass of 18 g/mol). Which one is considered the solvent and prove it mathematically and upload the solution in your scratch work.

          Consider a rubbing alcohol solution sold in local stores/pharmacies which contains 50% isopropyl alcohol (molar mass of 60 g/mol) in water (molar mass of 18 g/mol). Which one is considered the solvent and prove it mathematically and upload the solution in your scratch work.
        
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Consider a rubbing alcohol solution sold in local stores/pharmacies which contains 50% isopropyl alcohol (molar mass of 60 g/mol) in water (molar mass of 18 g/mol). Which one is considered the solvent and prove it mathematically and upload the solution in your scratch work.
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00:01 Hello everyone, here we have to find the solvent which is used in the aqueous solution of 50 % by mass of ethylene glycol.
00:08 This aqueous solution is used as car coolant in the car.
00:15 So 50 % by mass means 50 g ethylene glycol present in the 100 g of solution...
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