A chemistry student is given 3.00 L of a clear aqueous solution at 17 C . He is told an unknown amount of a certain compound X is dissolved in the solution. The student allows the solution to cool to 17 C . The solution remains clear. He then evaporates all of the water under vacuum. A precipitate remains. The student washes, dries and weighs the precipitate. It weighs 0.15 kg . Using the above information can you calculate the solubility, X, in water at 17 C.

in 1783 cavendish was working with his hydrogen gas and found that when he burned it and condensed the vapor it was water. this was very significant since it disproved the greek theory of elements completely since water was not a simple substance but the product of two gases. it was lavoisier who hearing of the experiment gave cavendish's gas the name hydrogen ("water-producer") and added that hydrogen burned by combining with oxygen and that water was a hydrogen-oxygen combination.

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