Percentage of Copper in Brass Screw

Chemistry Level 2

Hamza conducts an experiment to find how much copper is in a typical brass screw. Hamza thinks about how Beer's law can help find his concentration, but for that he needs a solution.He first weighs his brass screw and obtains a mass of . 7841 g .7841 \text{g} . He then proceeds to dissolve the brass screw with an oxiding agent in the reaction Cu ( s ) + 4 HNO 3 ( a q ) Cu(NO 3 ) 2 ( a q ) + 2 NO 2 ( g ) + 2 H 2 O ( l ) \text{Cu}(s)+ 4\text{HNO}_3(aq) \rightarrow \text{ Cu(NO}_3)_2(aq) +2\text{NO}_2(g)+2\text{H}_2\text{O}(l)

Hamza then dilutes the Copper Nitrate solution using a 100 mL 100 \text{mL} volumetric flask. He measures the solutions' absorbance and obtains an absorbance of . 228 .228 . He sets his calibration curve for Cu(NO 3 ) 2 ( a q ) \text{ Cu(NO}_3)_2(aq) and obtains an equation A = 1.294 c + . 1400 A=1.294c+.1400

Given the data above, find the percentage of copper in the brass screw.


The answer is 55.1.

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