Lithium sulphate is used in some medicines and its presence in a medicine can be shown by two a combination of two tests a)explain how a flame test could help in this context b) Describe how you would test a solution of the medicine for the presence of sulphate ions.
C) write a balanced chemical equation, including state symbols, for the reaction occurring in B)

A flame test could help by seeing what things it could catch on fire from or the things that could happen with acids etc. I would test the medicine by asking someone who has had it in their life, asking doctors or I would maybe use it myself maybe. (I don’t know about c, sooo sorry)

1. for the first question, we must find the mass of the anhydrous salt, mgso₄. the molar mass for mgso₄·7h₂o is 246.47 g/mol, while that of mgso₄ is 120.37 g/mol.7.834 g mgso₄·7h₂o * 1 mol mgso₄·7h₂o/246.47 g * 1 mol mgso₄/1 mol mgso₄·7h₂o * 20.37 g mgso₄/mol = 0.647 g mgso₄

2. mass of water = mass of sample - mass of anhydrous salemass of water = 7.834 - 0.647 = 7.19 gpercent water in hydrate = 7.19/7.834 * 100 = 91.74%

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