Boiling Point (1)

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I sabela Bannwart Armando Lorie Ann Murray 02/06/2024 Organic Chemistry II Section U04 Carlos Romagosa Boiling Point Purpose: This lab's purpose was to find out the impurity of a substance based on the melting point. Introduction: Melting point is a physical property used to identify and find the purity of an organic compound. The melting point of a solid is the characteristic temperature at which solid and liquid found equilibrium. Pure organic compounds usually melt sharply. Usually, it has a range no longer than two, where an impure substance melts over a wider range. Usually, a mixture of two substances will have a lower melting point than if the substance were melted alone. An advantage is that it is an easy and quick analysis and a disadvantage is that when the substance is not pure not always the melting point can be determined. The objective is to determine if the unknown will have a lower melting point when mixture with another compound. Results:
Urea melting point: 1 st trial 134-136C 2 nd trial 132-136C Benzoic Acid 1 st trial 121-123C 2 nd trial 121-124C Unknown #23 1 st trial 50-53C 2 nd trial 50-54C Discussion: Based on the experiment we can notice that because Benzoic acid has a lower melting point than urea, benzoic acid has fewer impurities than urea. The lower the melting point more impurities are present and the higher the melting point less impurities are present meaning the substance is purer and will reach a melting point quicker. The unknown used in this experiment #23 contains a lot of impurities, meaning that the melting point was very low. The melting was found to be 50-53C and 50-54C showing a product full of impurities on it and to make the product purer recrystallization would need to be done. A source of error that could have happened would be now waiting for the heater to properly cool down causing the product to melt quicker than it was supposed to. The experiment itself is a very easy process, but it is a process that needs patience and be careful because it can be easily messed up and the melting point can be affected. Questions:
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