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Sodium Sulphate solution and Sulphuric Acid
« on: July 24, 2007, 11:50:07 AM »
Say I have a saturated solution of sodium sulphate and I add a few drops of concentrated sulphuric acid. What will the result be? Will a precipitate of Na2SO4 form due to the dehydrating ability of H2SO4? Or can sulphuric acid only remove H2O from compounds that have inherent H2O?

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Re: Sodium Sulphate solution and Sulphuric Acid
« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2007, 02:35:52 AM »
Enahs link is rather useless in this case. Think about common ion effect. In this case some Na2SO4 will precipitate
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Re: Sodium Sulphate solution and Sulphuric Acid
« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2007, 01:12:25 PM »
So by adding H2SO4 [SO42-] increases resulting in the equilibrium shifting to favour the formation of Na2SO4?

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Re: Sodium Sulphate solution and Sulphuric Acid
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2007, 01:34:40 AM »
So by adding H2SO4 [SO42-] increases resulting in the equilibrium shifting to favour the formation of Na2SO4?
This is (probably) the main process (formation of solid hydrated Na2SO4 - hydration depends on temperature of the solution). The next process will be:
SO42- + H2SO4 = 2HSO4-.
This process may be important for larger amounts of sulfuric acid
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