You have two unlabeled test tubes, each containing a different alcohol having the condensed formulas written below (hint: rewrite the condensed formulas without the brackets) (CH3CH2)3COH CH3(CH2)3OH a.

a. What simple chemical test/reaction could you perform to determine which alcohol is in which test tube? Explain.
b. Which alcohol would you expect would be more soluble in water? Explain
c. Although we did not perform a dehydration reaction in this experiment, dehydration of alcohols to give alkenes is an important industrial process. Write the structural formula of the alkene that will be obtained when each of these alcohols (A and B) is heated in the presence of sulfuric acid. Dehydration of alcohol A: (CH3CH2)3COH - Dehydration of alcohol B: CH3(CH2)3OH →

2fe + 3h2so4 -> fe2(so4)3 + 3h2

it is necessary to balance equations in order to get the proper amount of reactants as well as products in order not to make a miscalculation.

you cannot change the subscripts as that would change the substance itself. for instance, diatomic elements such as h2 only have the subscript two when a gas. another example would be so4, if you were to change the subscript, the element would no longer be sulfate.

we change the coefficients instead as that only changes the number of molecules rather than the substance itself.

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a saline water is fed to a reverse osmosis unit at flow rate o rotameter connected to reject (retentate) line reads 8 installed in reject and permeate line reads 15.2 milli siemens/cm and 300 micro siemens/com respectively.