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Separation Of Urea And Trans-Cinnamic Acid

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In the first part of the experiment trans-cinnamic acid began to melt rapidly at 133 °C and had completely liquefied at 135.9 °C. Urea began to melt rapidly at 133 °C, just as the trans-cinnamic acid, but had completely liquefied at 134.7 °C. Both urea and trans-cinnamic acid had true melting points of 132 °C generating a .75 percent error. The 50:50 mixture of urea and trans-cinnamic acid started to melt quickly at 98.5 °C, slowed down at 102 °C, at which point most of the compound had seemed to have melted with the exception of a few crystals, which did not melt completely until 125°C . In the second part of the experiment, the melting point of an unknown compound was measured at a fast rate, 10 °C/min, in order to obtain an estimate of the melting point of that compound, which was about 130 °C – 139 °C. At this point the suspected organic compound was benzoin, and the melting points of the two compounds, benzoin and the unknown, as well as the 50:50 mixture of each, were obtained. The unknown compound, along with the benzoin, had identical melting points of 133.7°C – 134.9°C, while the 50:50 mixture had a melting point of 133 °C – 134.3 °C. The true melting point for benzoin is 132°C, generating a .75 percent error.

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