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Mistake Master · AP Chemistry · Unit 3 · Step-Through Animation

One Solution, Three Views

You'll learnto translate one dissolved ionic compound between formula, particle drawing, and beaker without contradiction.

Write CaCl2(aq), 1.0 M, draw the particles, describe the beaker on the bench, and those three descriptions are not allowed to disagree. The drawing is where the disagreement starts, because the formula names something that is not floating in that water. Twelve short steps; press Next for each one.

12 STEPS · 6 QUICK CHECKS · PARTICLE / SYMBOLIC / MACROSCOPIC · v3

ONE BEAKER · THE FORMULA, THE DRAWING AND THE LIQUID
Before you start
What you're looking at
A beaker of CaCl2(aq) at 1.0 M, beside the formula that names it and a description of the liquid.
The question
What would you actually draw in that water?
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