Answer to Question #3916 in Physical Chemistry for Ellise

Question

Can salt be lost during evaporation because after evaporating H20 from NaCl i was left with 0.1g of salt but using the equation m=n×M there should of been 0.1255g of salt. How was the salt lost?

Answer 1

Sodium chloride is not decomposed when heated in water and you could not lose it that way.
It is lost due to experimental error (maybe spillage of the solution)