Analysis Of A Hydrate Lab Report

Hydrate is a chemical compound that takes in water molecules from its domain and makes them as part of its structure. Many different compounds form hydrates. To determine the formula of a compound of a hydrate, an experiment must be presented by identifying how many water molecules are mixed into the crystal structure for each molecule of the anhydrous salt.

In this experiment, we were given two unknown hydrates: test tube 136 and test tube 100. Within each substance; acid, base and neutral were determined as the chemical identity for each unknown. As the experiment was being carried out; we noticed that the first unknown, 136, mixed with deionized water is basic which concluded that the compound was NaC2H3O2 (sodium acetate). The chemical