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Grade 12Inorganic Chemistry

What is isomorphous salts..?

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13 Years agoGrade 12
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ApprovedApproved Tutor Answer13 Years ago

The salts having the similar crystal strucure are called isomorphous salts

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ApprovedApproved Tutor Answer13 Years ago

In crystallography crystals are described as isomorphous if they are closely similar in shape.[1] Historically crystal shape was defined by measuring the angles between crystal faces with a goniometer. In modern usage isomorphous crystals belong to the same space group.

Double sulfates, such as Tutton''s salt, with the generic formula MI2MII(SO4)2.6H2O, where MI is an alkali metal and MII is a divalent ion of Mg, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu or Zn form a series of isomorphous compounds which were important in the nineteenth century in establishing the correct atomic weights of the transition elements. Alums, such as KAl(SO4)2.12H2O, are another series of isomorphous compounds, though there are three series of alums with similar external structures, but slightly different internal structures. Many spinels are also isomorphous