Unknown Carbonate Lab Report

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The purpose of this lab was to find out what Group 1 metal is in the unknown carbonate. The unknown carbonate was reacted with CaCl2. Using the mass of the precipitate formed in the reaction the molar mass of the unknown carbonate was found, revealing its true identity. After doing the calculations I got a molar mass 0.8685 g (unknown) / mol. Then, I compared my molar mass to the molar masses in the group 1 metals on the A.P. periodic table and realized it was pretty darn close to Sodium’s molar mass. The percent error calculated of the molar masses was only off by - 0.5285 % in fact. I knew then no one would believe Sodium to be the culprit (unknown) with no possible sources of error in the investigation (procedure). After looking over the

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