Seperations Notbook (5)

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Calculations: 1. Mass percentage of each component Percent Error= Measured Value-Actual Value/Actual value x100 a. Salt= 35.48% b. Sand=31.61 c. Calcium Carbonate=29.03 2. Percent recovery of the mixture =96.13% Percent Recovery=salt%+sand%+calcium carbonate% Conclusion: 3. The percent mass for each of the components was supposed to be 33.33%. Looking at the percent calculation for our components we were extremely close to the actual percent for each component. I believe the salt calculation must be higher than the 33.33% because it may have still had some weight from the water that it was being boiled in. The sand was the closest to the actual value most likely because it is the easiest to separate physically. The calcium carbonate is the farthest away most likely because we could have lost some of the calcium carbonate in the water that did not completely react with the K2CO3 and stayed dissolved in the water. 4. Percent errors for each component a. Salt=6.45% error. The salt percent error I believe is a result of extra water that did not boil off still being on the salt. It is possible that the filter paper let some CaCO3 through. b. Sand=5.16% error. The sand percent error is most likely due to a loss through filtering, it is possible some of the sand stayed on the filter paper and was missed. c. Calcium Carbonate=12.9% error. The CaCO3 percent error is most likely a result of not all of it getting off of the filter paper and not all of it reacting with the K2CO3 and still being soluble in water as CaCl2. 5. The overall percent recovery for the experiment is quite high resulting in a very successful experiment with a 96.13% recovery. However it should be noted that the percentage for Salt is over 33.33% which is technically not possible because the maximum recovery for salt would be 33.33% recovery so accounting for that it would bring the overall percent recovery down to 93.97% which would still be a very successful experiment.
Data Table I: Separation of the Components of the Mixture Unknown code:5 Mass of empty ‘beaker 1’, g 113.6g Mass of ‘beaker 1’ + unknown, g 116.7g Mass of unknown, g 3.1g Mass of ‘beaker 2’, g 113.52g Mass of ‘beaker 2’ + salt, g 114.62g Mass of salt, g 1.1g Mass of small watchglass + small filter paper, g 18.9g Small watchglass + small filter paper + calcium carbonate, g 19.8g Mass of calcium carbonate, g .90g Mass of evaporating dish, g 51.24g Mass of evaporating dish + sand, g 52.22g Mass of sand, g .98g
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