Answer to Question #255140 in General Chemistry for markie

Question

Some bottles of colorless liquids were being labeled when Mr Russel Pogi accidentally mixed them up and lost track of their contents. A 15.0 mL sample withdrawn from the bottle weighed 22.2 g. Mr. Russel Pogi knows that the liquid was either acetone, benzene, chloroform or carbon tetrachloride which have densities of 0.792 g/cm³, 0.899 g/cm³, 1.48 g/cm³, and 1.595 g/cm³ respectively. What was the identity of the liquid? 

Answer 1

The density of the sample = (22.2g)/(15.0mL) = 1.48 g/mL = 1.48 g/cm3.

Answer: chloroform.