Thursday, May 17, 2012

Evaporation and Intermolecular Attrations

First thing we did was get probe 1 and probe 2, wrapped square pieces of filter paper and tightened them with rubber bands.  In the methanol container we put probe 1 in, then we placed probe 2 in the ethanol container. After them being in their for 45 seconds we immedietly taped them at the edge of the counter at 5 cm. Once they were nice and secured we observed and waited for the temperatures were at their lowest. We got the highest temp and the lowest temp and subtracted to figure out the change during evaporation. After the whole process we repeated it with the exact steps and recorded the data.
           

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Beer's Law

In the begining we got 4 beakers and labeled them from one to four. The first beaker we put 2 mL of NiSo4, the second beaker got 4 mL, The third got 6 mL,  and the fourth one got 8 mL. We then got the pipet and put 8 mL of distilled water in the first beaker, 6 mL in the second, 4 mL in the third, and then 2 mL in the last one. All the beakers then got stirred up with a stirring rod.
Trial Number
0.40 M NiSo4 (mL)Distilled H2O (mL)Concentration
1280.08
2460.16
3640.24
4820.32
5~1000.40

Then in the macbook we opened up to "Exp 11 colorimeter". We created our graphs on it and calibrated our colorimeter to help us out during the experiment. When using the colormeter we had to be gentle when handling the cuvette and clean it before we used it. Then we put 3/4 of each solution in the cuvette then copied the results.

TrialConcentration (mol/L)Absorbance
10.080.124
20.16.238
30.24.714
40.32.740
50.40.880
6Unkown number 3.661
Concentration of Unknown0.24 mol/L

Thursday, May 3, 2012

acid/base lab

When it comes to acids and bases the similarity that they share is they both occurs on the Ph scale that ranges from 0-14. Other than that the similarities end, on the Ph scale numbers below 7 are considered acids and the numbers above 7 are considered bases. Then the number 7 is considered neutral and is neither an acid or base. 

Now this experiment was kind of at random and was just time for you to just observe and see how things react. We started with a red cabbage and it was bowled it until it literally turned into a liquid. We did not do this in the class Mr. Ludwig just told us and in the class it was all made for us to experiment with. Their was a bunch of different types of substances on the counter from pine sole that you clean the floors with to tums you take when your tummy aches. When I started I put this substance that was in the brown container and it made it a lighter pretty pink, i got so excited I started to add more stuff. Then I put one tum in and it began to fizz and make it a little white into the mixture.  Then I put this solution you put in your drain i think and that just made me so mad because it became this ugly yellow light green white color and no matter what I added the color stood the same. But the experiment was fun to play with. . . 
 

Making *Crystals* BROO!

First as a group we got a beaker and put distilled water in it, at no precise amount. Then we let it bowl over a mini heating stove thing, and once it was very bubbly we added potassium. My trick was to put not too much but not that little in and stir til it evaporated and then keep the process going. Soon enough we just stopped and class was over. We walked into class the next day with a beaker full of crystals not more than half way up but close. With all these crystals each one of us in the group tried to break up big crystals to tie up to a string. Then it was a self lab, I got my crystal and did the same process to a beaker but did not but the crystal in yet. Also I cold died my water with yellow and a few drops of red making it a light orange or a dark yellow. After putting as much dissolved potassium as I wanted I let the substance cool down and then later on added my crystal. Then next day my crystal got bigger and that day I did the same process . .  The last day came and this is what my crystal looked like: