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Percentage Purity

Is percentage purity the same as percentage yield?
(edited 2 years ago)
Original post by jnmp
Is percentage purity the same as percentage yield?

I would assume the percentage purity is to do with the proportion of impurities in a substance, so e.g. 0.1 mol C in 2 mol Cu (just completely random), whereas percentage yield is about what you expect from calculating moles and what you actually get in an experiment.

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