Cryoscopic Constants For Various Solvents

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Problem Set

Colligative Properties

1. A solution contains 5 g of urea (M2 = 60.05) per 100 g of water. What will be the vapor
pressure of this solution at 25C?
2. At 50C the vapor pressure of ethyl alcohol is 219.9 mm Hg. If 6 g of a nonvolatile
solute of molecular weight 120 are dissolved in 150 g of water and ethyl alcohol, what
will be the relative vapor pressure lowerings in the two solvents?
3. A solution composed of 10 g of a nonvolatile organic solute in 100 g of diethyl ether has
a vapor pressure of 426.0 mm at 20C. If the vapor pressure of the pure ether is 442.2
mm at the same temperature, what is the molecular weight of the solute?
4. At 25C 10.50 liters of pure N2, measured at 760 mm Hg are passed through an aqueous
solution of a nonvolatile solute whereby the solution loses 0.2455 g in weight. If the
total pressure above the solution is also 760 mm, what is the vapor pressure of the
solution and the mol fraction of solute?
5. If 30 g of diphenyl are dissolved in 250 g of benzene, what will be the boiling point of
the resulting solution under atmospheric pressure?
6. A solution consisting of 5.00 g of an organic solute per 25.00 g of CCl4 boils at 81.5C
under atmospheric pressure. What is the molecular weight of the solute?
7. Calculate the molar heat of vaporization of ethyl alcohol using the data given in Molal
Boiling Point Elevation Constants.
8. What weight of glycerol would have to be added to 1000 g of water in order to lower it
freezing point 10C?
9. An aqueous solution contains 5% by weight urea and 10% by weight of glucose. What
will be its freezing point?
10. Compare the weights of methanol and glycerol which would be required to lower the
freezing point of 1000 g of water 1C.
11. Calculate the heat of fusion per mole of phenol using the data given in Cryoscopic
Constants for Various Solvents.
12. A sample of CH3COOH is found to freeze at 16.4C. Assuming that no solid solution is
formed, what is the concentration of impurities in the sample?
13. A mixture which contains 0.550 g of camphor and 0.045 g of an organic solute freezes
at 157.0C. The solute contains 93.46% of C and 6.54% of H by weight. What is the
molecular formula of the compound?
14. When dissolved in 100 g of a solvent whose molecular weight is 94.10 and whose
freezing point is 45.0C, 0.5550 g of a solute of molecular weight 110.1 gave a freezing
point depression of 0.382C. Again, when 0.4372 g of solute of unknown molecular
weight was dissolved in 96.50 g of the same solvent, the freezing point lowering was
found to be 0.467C. From these data find (a) the molecular weight of the unknown
solute, (b) the cryoscopic constant of the solvent, and (c) the heat of fusion of the
solvent per mole.
15. An aqueous solution contains 20 g of glucose per liter. Assuming the solution to be
ideal, calculate the osmotic pressure at 25C.
16. The osmotic pressure of an aqueous solution containing 45.0 g of sucrose per liter of
solution is 2.97 atm at 0C. Find the value of the universal gas constant and compare
the result with the accepted value.
17. A solution of 1.00 g of antipyrine (C11H12N2O) in 100 cc of aqueous solution gave an
osmotic pressure of 1.18 atm at 0C. Calculate the molecular weight of the compound
and compare the result with the expected from the given formula.
18. An aqueous solution freezes at –1.50C. Calculate (a) the normal boiling point, (b) the
vapor pressure at 25C, and (c) the osmotic pressure at 25C of the given solution.
19. The average osmotic pressure of human blood is 7.7 atm at 40C. (a) What should the
total concentration of various solutes in the blood? (b) Assuming this concentration to
be essentially the same as the molality, find the freezing point of blood.
20. The vapor pressure of an aqueous solution at 25C is 23.45 mm. Calculate its osmotic
pressure.

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