fertilizer protocol

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Macey White and Aryaan Parmar EXPERIMENT 25 THE FERTILIZER PROJECT GRAVIMETRIC PROTOCOL OBJECTIVES Calculate mass of Phosphorus atoms in Mg(NH4)PO4*6H2 O. Calculate % P2O5 in fertilizer sample. Calculate theoretical % P2O5 in fertilizer sample EQUIPMENT NEEDED 50 mL beaker first red litmus paper 10 mL graduated cylinder filter paper 250 mL suction flask graduated disposable pipet Büchner funnel vacuum tubing watch glass funnel glass stir rod flask CHEMICALS NEEDED 0.4 M MgSO4 solution
0.556 ± 0.01 Fertilizer Iso-propyl alcohol 6 M NH3 Deionized water PROCEDURE Weigh out 0.556g of fertilizer. Dissolve the sample in about 10 mL of deionized water in a 50 mL beaker. Add 10 mL of the 0.4 M MgSO4 solution. Using a disposable plastic pipet, slowly add 1 mL 6M NH3 dropwise while stirring. This will precipitate insoluble Mg(NH4)PO4 6H2O. After adding all of the NH3, touch the stirring rod to a piece of red litmus paper. Repeat this, adding 1 mL of NH3 at a time, until the litmus turns blue when the solution contacts it. Then add a few drops more of NH3. Let the solution stand about 15 min to complete the precipitation. Filter off the precipitate using suction filtration. Wash the precipitate with two 5-mL portions of iso-propyl alcohol. (This helps the precipitate dry faster; the alcohol dissolves any water remaining on the precipitate and evaporates very rapidly.) Suck air through the filter for about twenty minutes to help dry the precipitate and then carefully scrape it onto a pre-weighed watch glass. Let the precipitate dry in the air for half an hour and weigh the watch glass with precipitate. While we are waiting for the product to dry, we perform a second trial by the previous steps. We then measure the mass of the product and use this to determine the % P2O5 in the sample.
RESULTS AND CALCULATIONS CALCULATING THE MASS OF THE FERTILIZER : CALCULATING MASS OF P IN Mg(NH4)PO4.6H2O :
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