Question

How many grams of iki would it take to obtain a 100 ml solution of 0.300 m iki? how many grams of iki would it take to create a 100 ml solution of 0.600 m iki?

Answer 1

0.300 M IKI represents the concentration which is in molarity of a potassium iodide solution. This means that for every liter of solution there are 0.300 moles of potassium iodide. Knowing that molarity is a ratio of solute to solution.

By using a conversion factor:

100 ml x (1L / 1000 mL) x (0.300 mol Kl / 1 L) x (166.0g / 1 mol Kl) = 4.98 g

Therefore, in the first conversion by simply converting the unit of volume to liter, Molarity is in L where the volume is in liters. The next step is converted in moles from volume by using molarity as a conversion factor which is similar to how density can be used to convert between volume and mass. After converting to moles it is simply used as molar mass of Kl which is obtained from periodic table to convert from mole to grams.

In order to get the grams of IKI to create a 100 mL solution of 0.600 M IKI, use the same formula as above:

100 ml x (1L / 1000 mL) x (0.600 mol Kl / 1 L) x (166.0g / 1 mol Kl) = 9.96 g