Solubility Curves Practice

Use the solubility curves graph below to answer questions that follow.

1. Choose the term (saturated, unsaturated, or supersaturated) that best describes:

(a) a solution that contains 70 g of NaNO3 per 100 mL of H2O at 30oC
(b) a solution that contains 60 g of dissolved KCl per 100 mL of H2O at 80oC

2. What mass of solute will dissolve in 100 mL of water at the following temperatures:
(a) KNO3 at 70oC (b) NaCl at 100oC (c) NH4Cl at 90oC

3. Which of the three substances: KNO3, NaCl, or NH4Cl is most soluble in water at 15oC?

4. What is the mass of potassium chloride that will dissolve in 250.0 g of water at 70C?

5. At 90C, 10 g of potassium chlorate is dissolved in 100 mL of water. Is this solution

saturated, unsaturated, or supersaturated?
6. A saturated solution of potassium chloride is dissolved in 100. g of water. If the saturated
solution is cooled from 90C to 60C, how many grams of precipitate will be formed?

7. Which substance on the graph is least soluble at 10C?

8. Which substance on the graph shows the least change in solubility from 0C to 100C?

9. What mass of 10C water will dissolve 350.0 g of potassium chloride to form a saturated sol’n?
10. Identify the solute and the solvent in the following solutions:

Solute Solvent
a Salt water
b Water vapor in air
c A brass alloy
containing 75% Cu
and 25% Zn

11. How does temperature affect the solubility of most solids? Most liquids? Gases? Explain.

12. How does increasing pressure affect the solubility of solids? Gases?

13. What mass of NaCl is dissolved in 152 mL of a solution if the concentration of the solution is
0.364 M?

14. What is the molarity of a solution that contains 55 grams of copper (II) chloride dissolved
in 1500 mL of water?

15. If I dilute 550 mL of 0.75 M lithium acetate solution to a volume of 750 mL, what will the
molarity of the resulting solution be?

16. Find the molarity of all ions in a solution that contains 0.165 moles of aluminum chloride
in 820 mL of solution. (Hint: write the equation for the dissociation of aluminum chloride
first).

17. What is a colligative property?

18. How are the following properties of a pure solvent changed when solute is added:
(a) vapor pressure (b) boiling point (c) freezing point

19. Why is this statement not accurate: “Colligative properties are proportional to solution
molarity”?

20. Rank the following three solutions from lowest to highest boiling point:
0.25 m barium hydroxide, 0.45 m sucrose, 0.65 m sodium hydroxide.

21. Why does increasing the solute concentration decrease the boiling point of a solvent?

22. The solubility of an ionic compound in water at 250 C is 5.0 grams/liter. How could you
make more than 5.0 grams of this compound dissolve in one liter of water?