Talk:Calcium chloride
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Removal of how-to section on aquaria
editToday I removed a section from this article describing how to create a solution of calcium chloride for use in a marine aquarium and without any citations for same. While the information was interesting, such how-to instructions do not belong in a Wikipedia article (see WP:NOTHOWTO). They could certainly be re-written describing how other people use calcium chloride in marine aquaria, along with at least one citation for same, no? But the section as it stood was a how-to guide, and that's not the goal of the project. Also, uses in marine aquaria already are mentioned in the article several paragraphs earlier, so the section was redundant as well. KDS4444Talk 16:51, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
Solubility data seems off
editHere's what it says about soluability in water:
- Anhydrous: MW=110.98
- 74.5 g/100 mL (20 °C)
- Hexahydrate: MW=219.07
- 49.4 g/100 mL (−25 °C)
- 59.5 g/100 mL (0 °C)
- 65 g/100 mL (10 °C)
- 81.1 g/100 mL (25 °C)
- 102.2 g/100 mL (30.2 °C)
- α-Tetrahydrate: MW=183.04
- 90.8 g/100 mL (20 °C)
- 114.4 g/100 mL (40 °C)
- Dihydrate: MW=147.01
- 134.5 g/100 mL (60 °C)
- 152.4 g/100 mL (100 °C)
I added the molecular weights
90.8g of Dihydrate = 68.55 g CaCl2 22.25g H20
Seems very strange that less CaCl2 dissolves when we're actually adding more solvent contained in the dihydrate crystals.