Molarity Calculations for Various Solutions: CH?OH, CaCl?, C??H?

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Here we have to calculate the molarity of each of the following solutions

(a) \(6.57 \mathrm{~g} \text { of methanol }\left(\mathrm{CH}_{3} \mathrm{OH}\right) \text { in } 1.50 \times 10^{2} \mathrm{~mL}\) of solution

It is known that the molarity of a solution can be calculated as follows,

\(\text { Molarity }=\frac{\text { moles of solute }}{\text { Volume of solution }}\)

Here it has been given that,

\(\text { Mass of methanol }=6.57 \mathrm{~g}\)

\(\text { Volume }=1.50 \times 10^{2} \mathrm{~mL}=1.50 \times 10^{1} \mathrm{~L} \simeq 0.150 \mathrm{~L}\)

\(\text { Molecular weight of methanol }=32.042 \mathrm{~g} / \mathrm{mol}\)

In order to calculate the molarity, 1st we have to find out the number of moles,

\(\begin{aligned} \text { Number of moles of } \mathrm{CH}_{3} \mathrm{OH} & =\frac{\text { Given mass of } \mathrm{C} \mathrm{H}_{3} \mathrm{OH}}{\text { Molecular mass of } \mathrm{C} \mathrm{H}_{3} \mathrm{OH}} \\ & =\frac{6.57 \mathrm{~g}}{32.042 \mathrm{~g} / \mathrm{mol}}=0.205 \mathrm{~mol} \text { of } \mathrm{CH}_{3} \mathrm{OH} \end{aligned}\)

Now the molarity can be calculated as,

\(\begin{aligned} \text { Molarity } & =\frac{\text { moles of solute }}{\text { Volume of solution }} \\ & =\frac{0.205 \text { mol of } \mathrm{C} \mathrm{H}_{3} \mathrm{OH}}{0.150 \mathrm{~L}} \\ & =1.37 \mathrm{M} \end{aligned}\)

Thus the molarity of methanol is found to be 1.37 M