If 10 ml of a 9 g/L stock solution of ferric chloride are added to a Hach container that has 5 L of water, what will be the concentration of ferric chloride in the water?
1 Answer
Mar 5, 2017
The new concentration will be 18 mg/L.
Explanation:
We can use the dilution equation to solve this problem.
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where
We can rearrange this formula to get
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In this problem,
∴