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Hydrated Salt Lab Report
In this lab, we used Bunsen burners to heat up a hydrated salt in order to determine the percentage of water inside of this hydrated salt. We heated up the salt in order to boil off the water, which allowed us to find the weight of the CuSO4 by itself. By comparing this final weight with the original weight and subtracting the difference, we were able to compile data about how much the weight of the hydrated salt decreased as the water gradually boiled away. In doing so, we were able to find the total weight of the water in the hydrated salt by subtracting the final weight weight from the original weight of the hydrated salt, allowing us to calculate the percentage of water in the hydrated salt by dividing the weight of the water by the original
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