Abstract The objective of the south street seaweed experiment is to make a tincture of iodine. Iodine is used commercially as an antiseptic on cuts and scrapes of the skin. Conceptually, one of the active ingredients of the tincture, iodide, can be extracted from seaweed. By adding the seaweed to water and applying heat energy into the mixture, we were able to extract iodide. After adding Iodine salts, and filtering the mixture our next goal was to test for three important chemicals that must exist in our mixture for it to be a true iodine tincture; Iodine, Iodide Ion and the triiodide ion.
The seaweed will be cut and weighed (6 grams) and transferred into 150 mL solution. Using 40 mL of distilled water the seaweed is heated just under boiling for five minutes. After cooling, a filter will be used to remove the seaweed from the extract. The goal is to transfer 2-3 mL of filtrate into the evaporating dish. We now slowly pour the solution into a funnel with filter paper.
Add 1 mL of deionized water to the small test tube containing the precipitate and mix it and centrifuge it for 60 seconds. Then, add the supernatant into the boiling test tube and repeat this step one more time with another 1 mL of deionized water. Acquire a pair of metal test tube holders and heat the boiling test tube to evaporate the water for 15 minutes. Let is cool after and weigh it. Then, calculate a percent yield of zinc iodide and write a balanced chemical equation and determine the limiting
First of all, a pharmaceutical product can be made from seaweed by heating seaweed in water. This causes the product to be extracted from the seaweed. After that, filtration is needed to extract the seaweed from the water. Finally, by evaporating the product can be extracted from the water. 2.
With a rod (spreader) that was dip in ethanol and then place under the busen burner in order to neutralize it; we spread the bacteria on every surface area of the petri dish. We wanted approximately 10 minutes for the bacteria to dry off, before applying the antibiotics. The three antibiotics were place in the center of the quadrants and a control was also place in the fourth quadrants carefully. Once this was done we close the petri dish and sealed it with parafilm for more protection for the environment of the bacteria. The two petri dish that contained E. coli and S. Marscensen were placed upside down and allowed the growth of the bacteria to interact with the antibiotics for a week.
Then 5mL of HCl was added to copper to completely remove all traces of zinc. Once the bubbling had stopped, the rest of the liquid was decanted away from the copper. Then the copper recovery set up was put together using tubing, Buchner funnel, filter paper and suction flask. Then the filter paper was weighed before placing it in the funnel and wetted down. The aspirator was turned to medium high, and then the copper was poured onto wetted filter paper.
5mL of acidified water will be measured, using a graduated cylinder, and will be transferred to the R tube, and will be immediately vigrously mixed with the reactants. Once the solution turns to an orange or red-brown color, a pipet will be used to quickly remove 30 drops of the solution, then transferred to the C tube, and the mixing will resume until the solution is close to room temperature. The solution will be filtered into the P tube, and the solution that is left in the R tube should be washed three times with 1mL of acidified water each time. The water should then be poured into the P tube, leaving the solid in the R tube. Using a test tube holder, heat the R tube over the Bunsen burner, moving the tube in a circular motion until all the water has evaporated.
Do an initial Benedict's test on the 15% glucose/1% starch and the beaker solutions for glucose by putting some of the solution and a roughly equal amount of blue Benedict's solution in a test tube, placing the test tube in boiling water for 90 seconds, and observing whether or not the solution changes color from blue. 3. Form a bag out of dialysis tubing by tying off one end, putting in enough 15% glucose/1% starch solution to fill it halfway, and tying off the other end leaving the other half of the bag void of anything (even air). Write down the solution's color. 4.
Discussion & Conclusion In this experiment we learned how to synthesize the cyclohexene by dehydration of cyclohexanol. We procedure the first step where we have to mix the components. Then we heat the R.B.F with a fractionating column, distilled water. Then we obtained the layers, and we transferred the organic layer to a small, dry Erlenmeyer flask. We added anhydrous Sodium Sulfate as a drying agent.
Rather, overtime the dried seaweed would soften with the water and form a mixture. 3. Define: a. Decant- gradually pour from one container to another, leaving the solid behind. b. Filtrate- a liquid that has passed through a filter c. Extract- a preparation containing an active ingredient of a substance in concentrated form d. Precipitate- the formation of a solid in the reaction of a solution e. Tincture- a medicine derived by dissolving a drug in alcohol Notebook (Photocopies included) Observations: -Iodine crystals- glittery, brown-black in color, small pieces with a length of about 4 mm and thickness of about 2 mm, brittle -Fucus seaweed- dry, dark green, strong pungent scent, stiff, easily snapped into two pieces -Tincture- brown liquid, strong alcohol scent, fairly thin and runny -Isopropyl alcohol- clear liquid, alcohol smell Observation of reagents, starting materials and changes during extraction: We broke the dried seaweed into small