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Overview Of A Experiment On The Alcohol-Water Experiment

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Analysis The aim of the extended experimental investigation was to conduct an experiment, and observe whether it would support or oppose the hypothesis of: As the temperature is increased, then the volume of the Alcohol-Water solution will contract accordingly, due to the input of thermal energy in the solution which will cause the hydrogen bonds to break and cause the volume of the alcohol-water solution to contract. The experiments involved increasing the temperature of a 10-ml alcohol (5 ml Ethanol, 5 ml Isopropanol) and water (5ml) solution, and measuring the contraction of the solutions after a period of time. With both experiments, contraction was present with the alcohol (ethanol, isopropanol) and water solution. The first of the tests conducted was the contraction of the Isopropanol-water solution. The 10-ml solution, consisting of 5ml Isopropanol and 5 ml water had total contractions between 0.3 and 0.4 ml during the selected testing time period. Initially, the solutions decreased by a total of 0.4 and 0.6 ml. The general trend with the initial contraction of the solutions is that the higher the temperature of the solution the more contraction occurs within the solutions. Another trend with the isopropanol-water solutions is that the volume contraction over the testing period, of 20 minutes, is that all the solutions at the different temperatures lost the same volume. Discussion and Evaluation With the increased temperature, the isopropanol-water solution contracts faster than the lower temperature due to the fact that molecules move faster with increased temperature. The hydrogen bonding between isopropanol and water is quite strong between the solvents and within themselves. As a result of the compounds’ properties they rearrange to assume a more efficient hydrogen bond between them, as the angles required for efficient hydrogen bonding are not present; the bond angles change due to the repulsive force of free electrons within the compound. The intermolecular forces that cause the molecules of ethanol, isopropanol, and water to rearrange and contract primarily include dipole-dipole interaction and hydrogen bonding. In terms of dipole-dipole interaction, the forces occur when polar molecules are

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