1. Objective: To find the percent composition of water in an unknown hydrate.
2. Materials: Goggles, apron, evaporating dish, hot plate, and stirring rod
3. Procedure:
get the mass of a evaporating dish, put a sample of the hydrate onto the evaporating dish and mass the dish with hydrate.
Put the dish with hydrate on the hot plate on high heat.
Break up any clumps that form during the heating process.
Observe any color changes visible and take off heat after 5 min.
Let the sample cool and re-mass it.
4. Data:
|Sample ID # |Mass in grams (g) |
|Mass of Evaporating