Chapter 19, Problem 85AP

Interpretation Introduction

Interpretation:

The oxidation state of gold metal in the gold salt is to be identified with given masses of $\text{Au}$

and $\text{Ag}$.

Concept introduction:

An effective process that can be used for the extraction of gold, silver, and other precious metals from the ores present in low yield containing large quantities of other nonprecious metals is called novel electrolytic dissolution cell, which facilitates the controlled production as well as utilization of chlorine efficiently as a solubilizing agent in order to remove the desired precious metals from the ore bodies.

The number of moles of a compound can be calculated as:

$\text{moles=}\frac{\text{given}\text{mass}}{\text{molar}\text{mass}}$