When copper II chloride reacts with aluminum to make copper and aluminum chloride, it turns into little bubbles. How do you recover it? Can you do it by condensation? I'm stuck!
2007-02-04 15:00:54 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
And where is aluminum chloride? When I placed a piece of copper into a solution of copper and aluminum chloride, little bubbles began to appear. So where is the aluminum chloride and how do I recover it?
2007-02-04 17:19:12 · update #1
The bubbles are not aluminum chloride -- they are probably hydrogen. The aluminum chloride will be a salt dissolved in the solution, and if the aluminum is present in excess, all the copper will precipitate out. (The solution should lose its blue coler.) If you decant the solution and dry it on filter paper, the aluminum chloride should show up there as white crystals.
2007-02-04 15:07:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How To Recover Aluminum Chloride
2016-12-10 05:41:30 · answer #2 · answered by gata 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
First of all, the Aluminum Chloride is not bubbling out. It is still in solution.
Once all the Copper metal has separated out, either filter the solution or decant the solution which contains the AlCl3. Evaporate the water. AlCl3 is not volatile and will eventually crystallize out. Then, just scoop it off.
On the other hand, Recovering it quantitatively is more rigorous. You need to make sure you minimize sample losses.
2007-02-04 15:10:31 · answer #3 · answered by Aldo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋