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Textbook Solutions for Chemistry: The Molecular Nature of Matter and Change

Chapter 4 Problem 4.40

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Aluminum sulfate, known as cake alum, has a wide range of uses, from dyeing leather and cloth to purifying sewage. In aqueous solution, it reacts with base to form a white precipitate. (a) Write balanced total and net ionic equations for its reaction with aqueous NaOH. (b) What mass of precipitate forms when 185.5 mL of 0.533 M NaOH is added to 627 mL of a solution that contains 15.8 g of aluminum sulfate per liter?

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Title Chemistry: The Molecular Nature of Matter and Change 5 
Author Martin S. Silberberg
ISBN 9780077216504

Aluminum sulfate, known as cake alum, has a wide range of

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