repCHEMISTRY I - LABORATORY EXERCISE MANUAL
LABORATORY EXERCISE 10: Melting Point and Boiling Point Determination
This is a traditional lab. You'll simply follow the step-by-step procedure, keeping records of your measurements and observations. Each student will write their own lab report, which should include the following:
Name:
Names of lab partners:
Date of Experiment:
Date Report Submitted
TITLE:
Purpose: A brief statement about what the experiment is designed to determine or demonstrate about chemistry
Procedure: Brief summary
Data Tables:
Observations:
Conclusions: What did you learn from the experiment? Should be based on observations made during the experiment.
Evaluation of laboratory exercise
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e. When the last bubble emerges from the capillary tube, record the temperature.
3. Reheat the water bath and repeat the cooling process two more times. Record the temperature reading after each trial, and average all three trials.
4. The published boiling point of isopropyl alcohol is 82.4 oC.
5. Calculate the error between the observed boiling point and the published value of the boiling point.
II. Melting Point
1. a. Push the open end of a capillary tube into the powdered acetamide.
b. Move the powder to the closed end of the capillary tube by tapping it on the table. Repeat until the the powdered acetamide occupies 1-2 mm of the capillary tube end.
c. With rubber bands, attach the capillary tube to a thermometer and align the bulb of the thermometer with the closed end of the capillary tube.
d. Make a water bath as before by half filling a 100 mL beaker with warm tap water.
e. Place the thermometer/capillary tube assembly in the water bath so that the surface level of the powdered acetamide is beneath the surface level of the water bath.
f. Place the beaker on the burner stand and, stirring frequently to insure even heating, carefully heat the water bath with your heat source.
g. Note the temperature at which the acetamide melts. Remove heat source.
h. Let the acetamide cool and recrystallize. Repeat the procedure two more times and average the results.
i. The
Use ice if you need to. Then, fill one beaker with 175 mL of water and the other with 350 mL. Warm the water in the 350mL beaker up to 55 degrees celsius and cool the water in the 175mL beaker to 15 degrees celsius, the same temperature as the pitcher because it will be your control group. Once the beaker that should be heated is at 55 degrees celsius, pour 175 mL of the water into a glove and pour the other 175 mL into a ziplock baggie. Pour the 15 degrees celsius, 175 mL of water into another ziplock baggie. Before you set these in water, have a stopwatch ready and make sure that the water in the baggies and glove is at the right temperature.
30. Same as carried out in Part (b), repeat steps 18. to 24. to dissolve the gas in the syringe in the heated de-ionised water.
An automatic pipet was used to measure 0.450 mL water and 0.165 mL acetic anhydride and was added to the conical vial. A spin vane was placed into the vial and an air condenser was attached.
17) Pour a small amount of the hot solvent into the flask containing the solid.
2. Read and record the temperature of the gas using the thermometer attached to the container.
8. Repeat step 7 with H2SO4, except that you should use a 10 mL graduated cylinder of H2SO4 and adding 15 mL water.
Fill a test tube about 1/3 full with cold tap water for use in step 34.
water during the equilibration period of 10 minutes. Vials 1,2, and 3 should be in the bath containing water at
This document is not meant to be a substitute for a formal laboratory report. The Lab Report Assistant is simply a summary of the experiment’s questions, diagrams if needed, and data tables that should be addressed in a formal lab report. The intent is to facilitate students’ writing of lab reports by providing this information in an editable file which can be sent to an instructor.
C. An unknown, rectangular substance measures 3.6 cm high, 4.21 cm long, and 1.17 cm wide.
seltzer tablet into it, and as I did so I started the timer. When Alka
b. Place crushed ice in the beaker so the water level is just below the top of the
b) An empty beaker was weighted. Then, water was filled in the beaker. The temperature was recorded at uniform intervals.
The styrofoam cups were used to store the acid (cup was labeled A) and base (cup was labeled B) prepare for them to be mixed. A lid was put on cup A and then the temperature probe was inserted to begin to measure the temperature
To achieve this, the final value from each thermocouple was set to be equal to the warm water bath temperature (370C), and the initial reading was set equal to the ice water bath temperature. Thus, for each thermocouple an equation was obtained using the two points to convert voltage readings to temperature. An example of the calibration for one of the thermocouples is shown in Appendix II.