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What common salt is added to precipitate out soap from the solution during its manufacture? |
Answer» Soap is sodium salt of higher fatty acids (RCOONa). On adding common salt, Na+ ion concentration increased. Hence, the equilibrium RCOONa (s) ----- RCOO- + Na + shifts in the backward dirction, i,e, soap precipitates out. |
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