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How many grams of NaCl should

be weighed to prepare 1 L of 20
ppm solution of Na + ?
Chemistry Solving Using PPM (Parts Per Million)

1 Answer

Stefan V. Share
Jul 10, 2015

Answer:
You need 0.05 g of sodium chloride.

Explanation:
In order to determine how much sodium chloride
must be dissolved in 1 L of water, start from the
definition of parts per million, ppm.
A concentration of 1 ppm is equivalent to 1 part
solute, in your case sodium chloride, for every 1
million parts solvent, in your case water.
To get a solution's concentration in ppm, you
multiply the ratio that exists between the mass of
the solute and the mass of the water by 1 million,
or 106 .
This is the exact same approach you use when
calculating percentage, the only difference being
the fact that you need to multiply the ratio by 1
million, instead of by 100.
So, you can safely assume the density of water to
be equal to 1 g/mL. This would make the mass of
water equal to

1000 mL 1g
1L ⋅ ⋅ = 1000 g
1L 1 mL
Sodium chloride will dissociate completely in
aqueous solution to form sodium cations, Na + ,
and chloride anions, Cl − .
NaCl ( aq ) → Na +
( aq )
+ Cl −
( aq )

The important thing to notice here is that you have

a 1 : 1 mole ratio between sodium chloride and
sodium cations. This mole ratio will help you
determine the mass of sodium chloride you need to
dissolve in order to get this particular solution.
The concentration of the target solution (in ppm)
will be
msolute
ppm = ⋅ 106
mwater
Plug in your values and solve for msolute .
ppm ⋅ mwater
msolute =
106
20 ⋅ 1000 g
msolute = 6
= 0.02 g
10
This means that your solution must contain 0.02 g
of sodium cations, Na + . Use sodium's molar mass
to determine how many moles of sodium cations
would be present
1 mole
0.02 g ⋅ = 0.000870 moles Na +
23.0 g
The aforementioned mole ratio tells you that you
must add the same number of moles of sodium
chloride to the solution.
1 moleNaCl
0.000870 molesNa + ⋅
1 moleNa +
= 0.000870 moles
NaCl
Now use sodium chloride's molar mass to
determine how much you need
58.44 g
0.000870 moles ⋅ = 0.05 g NaCl
1 mole
So, if you dissolve 0.05 g of sodium chloride in 1 L
of water you'll get a 20-ppm Na + solution.

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