Most alkyl halides and unsaturated hydrocarbons are not soluble in water. How can this fact be used to approximate the density of your unknown and to distinguish between alkyl chlorides, alkyl bromides, and alkyl iodides without balances?
As the alkyl halides are insoluble in water
We can approximate the density of the unknown sample by adding the known weight of alkyl halide to the water and the differential weights gives us the idea about the density of the unknown compound.
We can distinguish between alkyl chlorides, alkyl bromides and alkyl iodides by their difference in densities. The one with higher density will be the alkyl Iodide and the one with lowest density is alkyl cholride and the other one is alkyl bromide as the iodides will be having more density and the chlorides will be having less density when we compare them
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