Since the solution is not yet saturated, why stop adding salt?
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Recently, while working on a certain product, it was observed that in addition to the product being formed, some sodium chloride was also produced. To remove this sodium chloride, a small amount of water was added to the equipment; after some of the salt dissolved, the solution was actually unsaturated – so why wasn’t more salt dissolved?
How do you determine unsaturation? Have other influencing conditions been considered?
Test the solution to see what’s in it.
The mother liquor is separated out, allowing for further salt dissolution; the mother liquor and the product are separated from the insoluble salts
That is, the mixture changes the solubility; let’s see if we can find data on the properties of this mixture online