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Chemistry Forums for Students => Analytical Chemistry Forum => Topic started by: Carlaz on February 08, 2010, 11:51:28 AM
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Hi, I'm having some problems dissolving a number of salts into water. The salts are:
KI- ~4g
CaCl2~20g
MgSO4 ~ 1g
CaHCO3 ~2g
The solution is being made up with phosphate buffer and then being topped off to 1 L. The solution pH is 6.2 but the salts wont dissolved. I have tried heating and sonicating them. Does anyone know of a way to dissolve salts that don't want to go into solution? The exact quantities of ions need to remain relatively constant as i wish to measure the toxicity of each ion.
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Calcium phosphate?
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No its the K and Na phosphate buffer
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Obviously you didn't get my hint. I have not checked Ksp values so I can be wrong, but HS solubility rules tell me to look for solid calcium phosphate in your solution. Have you ruled out this possibility?
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Now that would make sense of my observation of there being more solids in the solution than what i put in there at the start. Now i need to think how i can remove the PO4 effect.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solubility_table
Here you can check if combinations of salt are soluble.