Help! % solution confusion - Making % stock solutions (May/12/2010 )

Hello,

This may seem like an obvious question, to those of you mathmatically inclined, but I am used to making up solutions using Moles. I was give a 32 % solution of stock HCl and told to make up 2 Lts of a 1 % working stock of HCl. I have sat for about 15 minutes now trying to work it out but just can't seem to do it. I know it's probably obvious and the 3 hrs sleep I had last night are not helping. Can anyone please explain to me how I should work this out, your help would be much appreciated!

Thanks

phosphate girl on May 12 2010, 03:27 PM said:

Hello,

This may seem like an obvious question, to those of you mathmatically inclined, but I am used to making up solutions using Moles. I was give a 32 % solution of stock HCl and told to make up 2 Lts of a 1 % working stock of HCl. I have sat for about 15 minutes now trying to work it out but just can't seem to do it. I know it's probably obvious and the 3 hrs sleep I had last night are not helping. Can anyone please explain to me how I should work this out, your help would be much appreciated!

Thanks

it can also be solved as

Required percent is 1 and stock percent is 32 which means you need to dilute it 32 times to get a 1% solution from 32% stock
you require 2 liters which is 2000 ml
So 2000/32 (REquired volume/dilution factor)
= 62.5ml

That's great! Thank you very much - so simple as well *groan* I should be banned from the lab. until I get a good nights sleep.

Thanks again

phosphate girl on May 12 2010, 02:40 PM said:

That's great! Thank you very much - so simple as well *groan* I should be banned from the lab. until I get a good nights sleep.

Thanks again