does aluminium chloride is soluble in acetone ?
Empty 2 liter soda bottles work well, or empty water bottles.
I built one out of 2 liter pepsi bottlesThere are some great single (and multi) stage water rockets on line using soda bottlesThey are built for pressure.
This is because aluminium chloride is at the border of ionic and covalentAnydrous AlCl3 behaves as covalentAlthough the bond is between a metal and a non metal, it is highly covalentThis is so because Al3+ has a high polarising power due to its high charge and small sizeIt can easily polarise the electron cloud of Cl-This causes the electrons cloud of Cl- to be distorted and be attracted to the Al3+ ionInstead of a complete transfer of electrons from aluminium to chlorine, now the electrons are shared between the atoms and hence it has a high degree of covalencyAcetone is a covalent solvent so dissolves covalent moleculesAlCl3 dissolves in water to give Al3+(aq) and Cl-(aq), which is ionic behaviour Hydrated AlCl3, Al(H2O)6Cl3, is undoubtedly an ionic solid, containing the Al(H2O)6 3+ cation AlCl3 sublimes at low temperature, giving vapour of composition Al2Cl6, with tetrahedral Al and two bridging ClIt also dissolves in organic solvents to give the same molecule, which would be classified as covalentEvery classification system has its borderline cases, and these are always very instructive.
Empty 2 liter soda bottles work well, or empty water bottles.
I built one out of 2 liter pepsi bottlesThere are some great single (and multi) stage water rockets on line using soda bottlesThey are built for pressure.
This is because aluminium chloride is at the border of ionic and covalentAnydrous AlCl3 behaves as covalentAlthough the bond is between a metal and a non metal, it is highly covalentThis is so because Al3+ has a high polarising power due to its high charge and small sizeIt can easily polarise the electron cloud of Cl-This causes the electrons cloud of Cl- to be distorted and be attracted to the Al3+ ionInstead of a complete transfer of electrons from aluminium to chlorine, now the electrons are shared between the atoms and hence it has a high degree of covalencyAcetone is a covalent solvent so dissolves covalent moleculesAlCl3 dissolves in water to give Al3+(aq) and Cl-(aq), which is ionic behaviour Hydrated AlCl3, Al(H2O)6Cl3, is undoubtedly an ionic solid, containing the Al(H2O)6 3+ cation AlCl3 sublimes at low temperature, giving vapour of composition Al2Cl6, with tetrahedral Al and two bridging ClIt also dissolves in organic solvents to give the same molecule, which would be classified as covalentEvery classification system has its borderline cases, and these are always very instructive.
