The steps listed below can be followed in order to prepare calcium chloride:

Step 1:

Take a beaker. Wear gloves and place limestones in it until the beaker is filled up by a quarter of its total volume.

Step 2:

Add approximately 1/4th of a beaker of HCl (hydrochloric acid) to the limestones.

Step 3:

As the HCl dissolves the limestone it starts to bubble. Mix the contents in the beaker gently and take care that the reaction completes. Add a little limestone if all the limestones dissolve in it completely.

Step 4:

Filter off the solids by pouring the solution through the filter paper as soon as the solution stops bubbling.

Step 5:

Heat the second beaker which contains the calcium chloride solution. Solid calcium chloride is the solid left after the water evaporates.


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