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The purpose of this experiment was to determine the water content of a hydrated salt. The hydrated salt in our experiment was CuSo4 and we determined the percent of water and mass of the sample. After the calculation we determined that there was 0.79g of water in the CuSo4. The percent of water present in the hydrated salt was 38.6%. This means that the whole compound contained only 38.6% of water or 0.79g and the rest was a white powder composed of Copper Sulfate. We also determined the molar ratio of salt to water which was 1:6. The accepted molar ratio of of salt to water was 1:5 meaning that our data was fairly close but there were still some errors. Some of the possible errors include the readings of the scale were off and also the CuSO4 may not have been properly heated. In order to avoid these errors i believe that the crucible should be heated more properly according to the procedure. The only thing i would change from this experiment would be to make it that we try different hydrates and compare the water sample in each to better understand what a hydrate is and the reason we determined the percent of water in the contents. 

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