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Periodic Table Lab Report

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First off, what is a periodic table? A periodic table is a table of chemical elements, which are arranged according to their atomic number, as well as other similarities. When you look at a periodic table for the first time, it can be overwhelming to see all of the elements. Once you take a closer look, you notice that they are arranged in certain groups. As stated in the lab website, each of the groups has a number (1-18) associated with it. Each of the elements all contains their names, the number of elections they have, and their atomic mass. For example, a really commonly known element is Hydrogen. Hydrogen contains one election and its atomic mass is 1.008. Now that you know a little about what a periodic table is, I will go on to talk …show more content…

In table 1, you can see we were testing group 2 nitrates. When we mixed H2SO4 and Ba(NO3)2, there was quite a bit of fizzing and we observed a milky color. There were quite a few that formed a precipitation. Some of those were when Na2CO3, (NH4)2C2O4, and KlO4 reacted with Ba(NO3)2. Potassium Iodate (KlO3) had no reaction with the last three nitrates, it only reacted with Ba(NO3)2. In part 2 of the experiment there was a lot of observations recorded. As you can see in table 2, when HCl reacted with Calcium it had a very violent fizzing reaction, so did HCl and Magnesium. Other solutions and metals that had fizzing occur were: HCl and Zinc, SnCl4 and Magnesium, SnCl4 and Zinc, and FeSO4 and Magnesium. Copper did not show any kind of reactions with any of the solutions we used. Another element that did not show much of an reaction with the solutions was Tin. Tin only showed a reaction with Cu(NO3)2 and Zn(NO3)2, but it was a very slow …show more content…

For this experiment, it is important to only mix the regents and metals the lab website states. In doing this, you will be able to accurately fill in the two tables with the observations you encountered. In part one of the experiment, when Ba(NO3)2 reacted with H2SO4 it forms H(NO3)+BaSO4 and forms a white precipitate, because the compound BaSO4 is insoluble. When the reagents and group 2 nitrates did not have a reaction, this meant that they did not precipitate, meaning the reaction was soluble. Some of the chemical equations where the reactions were soluble were: Ca(NO3)2(aq)+H2SO4(aq)→H(NO3)(aq)+CaSO4(aq), Mg(NO3)2(aq)+H2SO4(aq)→H(NO3)(aq)+MgSO4(aq), Ca(NO3)2(aq)+KIO3(aq)→K(NO3)+Ca(IO3)2(aq), and Sn(NO3)2(aq)+KIO3(aq)→K(NO3)+Sn(IO3)2(aq). Since the compounds were aqueous the reactions were soluble. There were more chemical equations that where insoluble than soluble. Some of the chemical equations for the soluble reactions were: Ba(NO3)2(aq)+Na2CO3(aq)→Na(NO3)(aq)+BaCO3(s), Ca(NO3)2(aq)+Na2CO(aq)→Na(NO3)(aq)+CaCO3(s), and Ba(NO3)2(aq)+(NH4)2C2O4(aq)→BaC2O4(s)+(NH4)(NO3)(s). In part two of the experiment we were observing the reaction between regents and metals. Copper was the least reactive with all of the reagents. There was no activity whatsoever with any of the reagents. Once we conducted all of the reagents with the metals, we were able to organize

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