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A sol contains of an ionic impurity. It is dialysed repeatedly. In each cycle the sol volume is brought to equilibrium with a fresh pure-water volume of and the water is then discarded. What is the minimum number of cycles needed to bring the impurity concentration below ? (Use and .)

Numerical answer type, answer in cycles, tolerance 0.1.

Answer: 4 cycles

Each cycle multiplies the concentration by . After n cycles must be below , so . . The minimum integer is 4.
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