Answer to Question #80627 in Chemistry for Ali Ghaddar

Question

A 2.578 g of leaf sample was dried. The dried material weighting 0.7692 g was ashed and dissolved in a 500 mL. The concentration of a metal in the final solution was reported as 1.75 mg/L. Report the concentration as ppm of the metal in
a) the wet sample,
b) the dry sample,
c) find % of water in the original sample.