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Let's add some red cobalt chloride to the ethyl alcohol in this beaker.
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Adding cobalt(II) chloride to ethyl alcohol...
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Dissolving red form of cobalt(II) chloride in ethyl alcohol produces a blue solution. |
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Is the blue color the octahedral hydrate of cobalt(II) chloride?

