Reactions of Ethanoic Acid & Hydrochloric Acid with Magnesium

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Gas produced - Hydrogen 2 Salts produced - Magnesium Ethanoate & Sodium Ethanoate (1) Ethanoic Acid with Magnesium (2) Hydrochloric Acid with Magnesium # of moles of magnesium: Number of moles = mass / mass of one mole # Moles = 0.165g / 24.31 = 0.00678733031 # of moles of acid used 6 CM³ --> litres = 0.006 Litres of acid Concentration = 1M/litre 0.006 / 1 = 0.006 Moles of Hydrochloric/Ethanoic acid used Metal is in excess. Total volume of gas produced in each reaction= Time (S) Hydrogen Produced (Ethanoic) Time (S) Hydrogen Produced (Hydrochloric) 20 8 10 10 40 21 20 15 60 32 30 22 80 44 40 27 100 51 50 29 120 56 60 34 140 60 70 36 160 61 80 39 180 62 90 41 200 64 100 42 220 65 110 43 240 65 120 44 300 66 180 50 360 67 240 51 420 68 480 69 Analysis My graphs show that, at the start, the rate of hydrogen produced is very quick. As the reaction moves on, this changes as it flattens out and the reaction slows before all the magnesium was used up. The reaction of magnesium with Ethanoic acid was quicker than the one with hydrochloric acid, shown by the larger arc in the sameamount of time. The reactions are different because ethanoic acid has weaker attractions and gives away the electron in its outer shell easier. We didn't have time to see the volume of hydrogen being the same. Evaluation I believe that the precision of our measurements of acid could've been better. Using glass beakers with a higher resolution would allow us to correctly measure the amount of acid we would be reacting. Also, we lacked precision in timing, and should've used a more precise stopwatch to make sure it was a fair test. We also didn't have the same intervals for the measuring of time, which would've not made our experiment

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