Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Name Them

How do you name a hydrate???

6 comments:

Kayla said...

The number of water molecules associated with each formula unit of the compund is written following a dot. Hydrates are found with a variety of numbers of water molecules. The mass of water associated with a formula unit must be included in molar mass calculations.

..::..Fair..::.. said...

In the formula for a hydrate, the number of water molecules associated with each formula unit of the compound is written following a dot. You use a prefix with the number of molecules and the word hydrate meaning water.

Anonymous said...

The number of water molecules associated w/ each formula unit of the compound is written following a dot. Decahydrate means that ten molecules of water are associated w/ one formula unit of compound. Mass of water associated with a formula unit must be included in molar mass calculations.

matt said...

You have to be concerned about the number of water molecules associated with formula unit of the compound. If you had 10 h20 molecules then it would be a decahydrate. If you had 1 hydrate by would call it a monohydrate.

Anonymous said...

In the formula for a hydrate, the number of water molecules associated with each formula unit of the compound is written following a dot. Hydrates are found with a variety of numbers of water molecules. Use a prefix like deca- and then add the root word.

rach said...

you name hydrate by the number of water molecules associated with each formula unit of the compound is written follwing a dot. Hydrates are found w/a variety of numbers of water molecules. the mass of water associated with a formula unit must be included in molar mass calculations, but i dont like doing all these calculation things - hopefully there isn't anything math wise.. in dental assisting and cleaning people's teethes!