58.44 grams of NaCl and you dissolved it in exactly 2.00 kg of pure water (the solvent). What would be the molality of the solution?
1 Answer
May 15, 2014
The molality of the solution is 0.500 mol/kg.
The molality of a solution is the number of moles of solute per kilogram of solvent.
Molality =
In this case, NaCl is the solute and water is the solvent.
Moles of NaCl = 58.44 g NaCl ×
Kilograms of water = 2.00 kg water
Molality =