Observations
Nitric Acid Station: Cu(s) + 4HNO3(aq) Cu(NO3)2(aq) + 2NO2(g) + 2H2O(l)
Before
Copper is a reddish brown powdery and lustrous substance. HNO3(aq) is colorless and transparent liquid. During
Adding HNO3(aq) made the solid copper change color and state of matter. The solid brown copper turned into a green liquid. Bubbles formed at the surface of the solution and a yellow-brown gas was released. The beaker became warmer and the temperature of the solution increased.
After
The substance turned into a clear and non-viscous blue liquid as the copper dissolved completely.
Addition of distilled water into the Copper (II) nitrate solution
Before
The Copper (II) nitrate solution’s color is blue and clear.
Distilled water is a transparent and colorless liquid.
During
Distilled water changed the color of copper (II) nitrate into a lighter shade of blue and diluted the solution.
After
The solution turned into a light blue liquid.
Sodium Hydroxide Station: Cu(NO3)2(aq) + 2NaOH(aq) Cu(OH)2(s) + 2NaNO3(aq)
Before
The copper nitrate solution is non-viscous and clear light blue. NaOH is a translucent, non-viscous liquid.
During
When NaOH is added to the copper solution, a dark-navy blue jelly like substance begins to form at the bottom of the beaker. The liquid was clouded and more viscous than prior to the reaction.
After
The product is a thick, viscous and blue solution.There is small portion of the light blue solution adhered to the side of the beaker.
Sodium
After 1 minute, a slight change in the color of the iron strip was noticed. It became somehow darker.
In this task the concentration of an unknown sample of copper sulphate using colorimetry was used to find the concentration. In this investigation copper sulphate was used which is CuSO4.5H20 as a formula. To make a standard solution which was 1M, the same clean equipment was used to make up the standard solution as used to make sodium carbonate. However there was one difference and that was that the hot distilled water was used to dissolve the copper sulphate crystals. There had to be enough hot water in order to dissolve the crystals into the beaker and then add cold distilled water to cool the solution.
In this experiment an elemental copper was cycled a series of five reactions where it ended with pure elemental copper as well, but at different stages of the cycle the copper was in different forms. In the first reaction, elemental copper was reacted with concentrated nitric acid where copper changed the form from solid to aqueous. Second reaction then converted the aqueous Cu2+ into the solid copper II hydroxide (Cu(OH)2) through reaction with sodium hydroxide. The third reaction takes advantage of the fact that Cu(OH)2 is thermally unstable. When heated, Cu(OH)2 decomposes (breaks down into smaller substances) into copper II oxide and water. When the solid CuO is reacted with sulfuric acid, the copper is returned to solution as an ion (Cu2+). The cycle of reactions is completed with the
Yes, because the solution seen was still blue meaning that not all the copper chloride was extracted from the beaker.
The Cu Later lab experiment is designed to allow you to practice lab skills in implementing and performing a series of reactions. Specifically, four types of chemical reactions will occur: oxidation/reduction; double replacement; single replacement; and decomposition. You will begin with a known amount of copper metal, which, after progressing through several steps, is reproduced. In this experiment you will observe and record the various changes such as heat, color changes, and production that occur. This procedure is used to observe some chemical reactions of copper and its compounds while also performing the lab appropriately as to retain the copper as much as
Heavy precipitate emerged immediately and solution turned white in color; solution then became opaque and turned light, bright blue in color.
11. Cu (NO3)2, cupric nitrate is used widely in industries. It makes an impersonate ink when mixed with ammonia.
Copper wire turned white when submerged in distilled water, little crystal-like substances forming on copper
Before the synthesis of the Copper Iodine Compound, the identities provided (CuNO3)2 and Nal weighed 1.65 g and 4.7 g, respectively. After being weighed, the (CuNO3)2 exhibited a blue color, while the Nal, through observation, was a white color. However, when both identities were combined, the product turned into a brown and red rocky material. Once 20 mL of deionized water was added, the product quickly turned pale pink paste. After the solution was repeatedly washed with a total of an additional 100 mL of deionized water, the product was powdery and pink with small grains, and was left to air-dry. Once the product was air dried, it was observed to be a pale pink color, while the filter paper was stiff as the product was hard and dry. Therefore, the solid was scraped off onto a recrystallizing dish. However, the mass of an empty recrystallizing dish needed to be recorded in order to compare how much of the synthesized copper iodide was obtained. Within this case, the empty recrystallizing dish used weighed 32.01 g, the product on the empty dish weighed 1.03 g, having a total weight of 33.04 g.
|1. Copper metal (penny) at the start |Tarnished, worn out, brownish, copper-colored, fine solid. |
1) Allow the copper in the beaker to dry at low temperature in a drying oven for at least one hour.
Experimental approach: In the first reaction, copper metal turnings oxidize when put in contact with nitric acid and become copper nitrate.
The lab performed required the use of quantitative and analytical analysis along with limiting reagent analysis. The reaction of Copper (II) Sulfate, CuSO4, mass of 7.0015g with 2.0095g Fe or iron powder produced a solid precipitate of copper while the solution remained the blue color. Through this the appropriate reaction had to be determined out of the two possibilities. Through the use of a vacuum filtration system the mass of Cu was found to be 2.1726g which meant that through limiting reagent analysis Fe was determined to be the limiting reagent and the chemical reaction was determined to be as following:-
Assign one member of the group to gently stir solution with a thermometer (See figure 2)
When one looks back at the procedure of the experiment, trials 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 all use 6 M HCl for their reactions, and if this were to be substituted for 6 M HNO3, then these reactions would have still taken place, except in trial 2 because copper is less reactive than hydrogen in all cases, but their final observations may yield different colored solids and solutions (Beran,