Melissa Carrithers 9-17-14 Period: 6 Determination of the Empirical Formula of Silver Oxide Purpose: To find the percent composition and empirical formula of silver oxide can then be calculated‚ based on combining the ratios of silver and oxygen in the reaction. Hypothesis: Silver oxide decomposes to silver metal and oxygen when strongly heated. Heating Silver oxide causes the oxygen to be driven off‚ leaving only the silver metal behind. The total mass of the products of a chemical reaction must
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Pre-Lab Discussion An empirical formula is a formula for a chemical compound found by direct laboratory examination. Laboratory procedures allow the chemist to find the simplest whole number ratio of elements within the compound. In order to find the true molecular formula‚ the chemist also needs to know the compound’s molecular mass. The general procedure is to use laboratory techniques to determine the mass of each element in the compound. In this lab‚ we will react a known quantity of magnesium
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CHEMISTRY EXPERIMENTAL REPORT SALLY LI INTRODUCTION: In chemistry‚ compounds can be distinguished by using the empirical formula. The formula provides the simplest positive integer ratio of elements in a compound. The empirical formula is largely useful in determining the ratio of elements within ionic compounds where the structure is of a non-directional nature of bonding where any ion at any time could be surrounded by
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CHEMISTRY EXPERIMENT NUMBER 8 PERCENTAGE OF WATER IN A HYDRATE Objectives 1. To determine the percentage of water in barium chloride dihydrate. 2. To determine the percentage of water in an unknown hydrate salt. 3. To calculate the water of crystallization for the unknown hydrate salt. Discussion A hydrate salt is composed of anions (negative ions) and cations (positive ions) which are surrounded by and weakly bonded water molecules. Each hydrate salt has a fixed number
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A The % Composition and Empirical Formula of a Hydrate: It Doesn’t Hold Water‚ Or Does It? 1. To determine the percent water in an unknown hydrate. 2. To calculate water(s) of crystallization for an unknown hydrate. 3. To determine the formula of an unknown hydrate. OBJECTIVES SKILLS Proper use of the following equipment: Dial-O-Gram balance (Laboratory Technique I)‚ electronic balance (Laboratory Technique II) and Bunsen burner (Laboratory Technique III). Dial-O-Gram balance‚ electronic
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Abstract: Hydrates are compound with a constant composition. Concepts of Law of Definite Proportions (hydrates remain in constant proportions) and Law of Conservation of Mass (this idea is used to determine the mass of water in the compound and‚ subsequently‚ the formula of the compound) are expressed in this experiment. In this experiment‚ the goal was to find the formula of copper sulfate pentahydrate by heating a sample of the blue compound in order to evaporate the water and receive the
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EXPERIMENT 6 – Empirical Formula of a Compound INTRODUCTION Chemical formulas indicate the composition of compounds. A formula that gives only the simplest ratio of the relative number of atoms in a compound is the empirical formula or simplest formula. The ratio usually consists of small whole numbers. We call a formula that gives the actual numbers of each type of atom in a compound the molecular formula. The numbers in a molecular formula will be whole number multiples of the numbers in an empirical
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[ print page ]03.09 Molar Mass of Compounds: Determining the Formula of a Hydrate—Text Version When hydrates are heated‚ the water of hydration evaporates and is released as vapor. The remaining solid is known as the anhydrous salt‚ which is the compound same compound without the water molecules trapped inside. Title:The title of the lab should be at the top of the lab report. Purpose: In one or two complete sentences‚ state the purpose of this laboratory investigation. Materials: List
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The Empirical Formula of Magnesium Oxide. Focus Question – Can the mass of magnesium combusted in excess oxygen be used to determine the empirical formula of magnesium oxide? Hypothesis – Combustion of Magnesium will generate data which can be used to calculate the EF of Magnesium Oxide Experimental Report: Data Collection and Processing Qualitative Observations: * The Magnesium burnt with a very bright flame. (as seen in figure 2 below) * White smoke was formed and some
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purpose of this lab was to study the composition of hydrates. Hydrates are ionic compounds that are chemical compositions made of water and salt. A main objective was to remove water from the hydrate by heating‚ and determine the amount of water that was in the hydrate. After doing this‚ one had to predict the empirical formula for hydrated copper sulfate. In doing this lab‚ one was able to see the gradual change in the composition of a hydrate into an anhydrous salt. The lab was carried out with
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