In order to determine the oil content of different types of potato crisps (chips), a student weighed 5.00g of crushed crisps and mixed them with 20.0cm3 of non-polar solvent.
She assumed all the oil in the crisps dissolved in the solvent.
The student then filtered the mixture to remove any solids, and gently heated the solution on a hot plate to evaporate the solvent.
She measured the mass of the oil that remained from each type of crisps
Suggest why a non-polar solvent was needed.

In order to determine the oil content of different types of potato crisps (chips), a student weighed 5.00 g of crushed crisps and mixed them with 20.0 cm3 of non-polar solvent. She assumed all the oil in the crisps dissolved in the solvent. The student then filtered the mixture to remove any solids, and gently heated the solution ...

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nikitarahangdaleVT nikitarahangdaleVT · Answer 2 · 2022-04-29T07:45:26+02:00

Student needed a non polar solvent to determine the content of oil due to non polar nature of oil.

What are non polar solvents?

Those solvents in which within the molecule positive and negative ends are not present will describe as a non polar solvents.

Molecules will dissolve in same kind of solvent by the concept of like dissolves like, means polar molecules dissolve in polar solvents and non polar molecules will dissolve in non polar molecules. Oil is a non polar molecule thats why in the experiment to determin the oil content or to dissolve oil of crisps in the solvent he had used non polar solvent.

Hence due to non polar nature of oil, student used non polar solvent.

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