The Densities of Liquids and Solids

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The Densities of Liquids and Solids Pre Lab 1) The Densities of Liquids and Solids 2) 9/18/2013 3) The purpose of the experiment is to find out how to get the accurate data when calculating the Mass of a Coin, Density of a Liquid, and Density of a Solid. 4) First take a coin and measure it’s mass to 0.0001 g then record it. If your balance has a TARE bar, use it to zero the balance. Then take another coin and measure its mass, then record it also. After that take both of the coins off and zero the balance. Then weigh both coins together, recording the total mass. If you have no TARE bar then add the second coin and measure and record the mass of the two coins. Weigh the coins again just to make sure your data is accurate. Go to the stockroom and obtain a glass-stoppered flask, which will serve as a pycnometer, and samples of an unknown liquid and an unknown metal. When measuring the density of a liquid make sure that your flask is clean and dry. Weigh the dry flask with its stopper on the analytical balance, or the top-loading balance if so directed, to the nearest milligram. Fill the flask with distilled water until the liquid level is nearly to the top of the ground surface in the neck. Put the stopper in the flask in order to drive out all the air and any excess water. Work the stopper gently into the flask, so that it is firmly seated in position. Wipe any water from the outside of the flask with a towel and soak up all excess water from around the top of the stopper. Again weigh the flask to the nearest milligram. Having the density of water and the temperature of water, you should be able to determine the volume of the flask very precisely. Empty the flask, dry it, and fill it with your unknown liquid. Stopper and dry the flask as you did when working with the water, and then weigh the stoppered flask full of the unknown liquid, making sure

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