You are given a substance that is qually soluble in water and hexane (two immisible solvents) a) what is Kd B) if you start with 10g of the substance dissolved in 100ml of water and are given 100ml of hexane to extract with, algebriaically show that it is better to do two smaller extractions using 50 ml of hexane for each extraction than it is to do one extraction using 100ml of hexane

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You are given a substance that is qually soluble in water and hexane (two immisible solvents)

a) what is Kd

B) if you start with 10g of the substance dissolved in 100ml of water and are given 100ml of hexane to extract with, algebriaically show that it is better to do two smaller extractions using 50 ml of hexane for each extraction than it is to do one extraction using 100ml of hexane

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