A Library For Chemists Lab Report

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Ammara Abid 9/10/14 Chem 106 A Library for Chemists Observations: * The hydrochloric acid and rubbing alcohol look almost exactly identical. If the labels weren’t on it I wouldn’t know what they were. * The mineral oil looks slightly thicker than the alcohol * The zinc shot has a small tiny teardrop shape * Zinc shot: grey color- less shiny than the granular * Zinc powder: has the consistency of flour except it is grey * Zinc Mossy: Big ½ inch pieces of zinc that resembles the zinc shot in color and texture but they are not teardrop shaped * Solid iodine: small circular pieces- black with a dark purple sheen * The solid iodine has an unpleasant smell that resembles bleach Solubility Test:…show more content…
Based on the handbook, the color of the iodine should be violet black, which was one of the properties I observed. It is soluble in alcohol, mineral oil, and potassium iodide and insoluble in water. I obtained the same results although for some substances more iodine dissolved than others. This could have been because perhaps we used too big pieces of solid iodine. If there wasn’t enough solution to react with it then that would explain why we still had some left over that didn’t. For the zinc, the handbook says that it is insoluble in water but soluble in acid. Likewise we observed the same thing, the zinc did not dissolve at all in the water but became somewhat soluble in hydrochloric acid. The Zinc began to fizz but in the end not all of it was dissolved although there was significantly less than we started…show more content…
My lab partner, Salowa and I are confident in our observations and results. When starting the lab we made sure to clean our test tubes and all materials such as the graduated cylinder and stirring rod. This would help avoid any contaminant left over from previous labs from affecting our experiment. We also observed each of our chemicals, making sure we knew exactly which chemicals to use. This helped avoid future error of using the wrong chemicals in our experiment. In our group, we split up the tasks. I did solubility while Salowa observed the mass of zinc versus the displacement of water. Yet we both made sure we did double checks. When observing the solubility I asked Salowa to take a second glance at the iodine or zinc in the test tube, just incase I missed something. Likewise when Salowa was reading the graduated cylinder, I double-checked it to make sure we both agreed on the number. In a few cases we did not both agree on what the reading of the graduated cylinder was. In this case we called over a third person, Ardit, to read the graduated cylinder and see who he agreed with. This gave us accurate results by not having errors in our data. The standard density of zinc is 7.14 g/mL. Our group got 6.1 for the density. Our results weren’t as close as other group members for example Lianna and David who had

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