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Alka Seltzer Experiment

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Your final mass in this experiment was less than your initial mass. Did you lose mass? If not, where did it go?
The loss of mass is because of the CO2 that was lost.

What is one way you could have increased the rate of the reaction between the Alka Seltzer and vinegar/water solutions in the beaker?
By increasing the temperature as increasing the temperature increases reaction rates because of the disproportionately large increase in the number of high energy collisions. This could have been done by warming the water instead of using room temperature.

Alka Seltzer is a combination of citric acid, sodium bicarbonate, and aspirin. Why don’t these react with each other in the tablet since sodium bicarbonate reacts with acid in this experiment?

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