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Calculating percentage purity

Hi guys,
How do you go about calculating percentage purity of somthing?
Thanks
Reply 1
what you got/what you should of got x100

i fink its dat
Reply 2
is it number of moles you got/number of moles shoulda got X 100
yeah tis the actual no of moles you get/theoretical no of moles *100
Reply 4
ganghadin
yeah tis the actual no of moles you get/theoretical no of moles *100


but isn't tht percentage yield? or is percentage yield and percentage purity the same thing?
this thread is a couple of years old :tongue:

percentage purity = (pure mass/impure mass) x 100
How do you know which is the pure and impure mass in an equation?
how do you know which is the pure and impure mass in the reaction?

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