and give 45 mL of the solution three times daily. What critical information is missing from the worn label? How many pills should the patient be given each day to remove the poison? Please work quickly! Instructions: Write a professional report
and give 45 mL of the solution three times daily. What critical information is missing from the worn label? How many pills should the patient be given each day to remove the poison? Please work quickly! Instructions: Write a professional report
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Transcribed Image Text:Welcome to the Chemistry Forensics Agency. At the CFA, we use our chemistry expertise and understanding to help
solve problems of a potentially criminal nature. Bucks McGee, after being poisoned, is currently being treated in the
hospital with an antidote- the chemical Fe7(CN)18. The compound is so intensely coloured that even a small amount of
it makes for a black or dark blue suspension. Given that this antidote has never been administered at the hospital, none
of the doctors or nurses have experience with it. There is one very old bottle of Fe7(CN)18 pills in the medicine
storeroom, but the label is worn, and the units are in the old, archaic British Apothecaries' system which has unusual
units like drachms, scruples, grains, and mites: 453.6 grams (g) = 1 pound (lb) = 12 ounces (3) = 96 drachms
(3) = 288 scruples (3) = 5760 grains (gr) = 115200 mites (m) It would take days (at least!) for a new bottle of the
antidote to be ordered and received, and Bucks McGee probably doesn't have days! The instructions on the worn bottle
label of Fe7(CN)18 pills read as follows: "Each pi-Ic-ntains 12.5 of act-ve-ngre- dient. Adm-i-- ister thr-e tim - s
-aily unt-1-ymptoms dimi-ish." One doctor phoned an old, retired physician who had used this antidote long ago at
another hospital, and who seemed to remember that they used to make 0.025 M solutions of this compound in ethanol
and give 45 mL of the solution three times daily. What critical information is missing from the worn label? How many pills
should the patient be given each day to remove the poison? Please work quickly! Instructions: Write a professional report
to communicate your results for the administration of the antidote. What should the label say? What unit is missing (
This has to be one of the units listed in the background information)? Explain how you came to your conclusion. How
many pills should be given 3 times daily? Show your work below, including all relevant unit conversions.
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