Aluminum Potassium Sulfate Lab
This experiment contains three separate procedures in which Aluminum Potassium Sulfate(Alum) will be melted, massed out and mixed with Barium Nitrate, along with distilled Water. Procedure one we completed two trials of melting two separate 0.01g of Alum and making a comparison to the literature temperature of 92.5, to do this we attached an Alum filled capillary tube to a thermometer and inside a beaker placed over a Bunsen burner. Procedure two consisted of placing 2.00 grams of Alum into a crucible and heating it over a Bunsen burner while making sure to take the separate masses as well as the masses of the Alum before and after heating. Procedure three was determining the outcome of mixing the Alum with distilled water and Barium Nitrate
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No although there were no set questions listed before we started our experiment three hypotheses were developed one for each procedure. In the following three procedures there will be three separate amounts of Alum used all in different quantities. In procedure 1 the hypothesis was that if we melt 0.01g of Alum grinded into a powder, that it would be fairly similar to the literature temperature of 92 .5 degrees Celsius, and his hypothesis was based on the ideal knowledge that anytime you have 0.01g of Alum it would have the same or similar melting point. In procedure two the hypothesis was that if we took 2.00g of Alum crystals and heated it in a covered Crucible to drive off any water that the mass anhydrous Alum would decrease, this hypothesis was developed with the idea that all things contain H2O and if we eliminate that H2O and its mass that, the anhydrous substance itself would decrease in mass. Finally in procedure three hypothesis was that if we take 1.00g of Alum and mixed it with 50mL of distilled water, and 40mL of Barium Nitrate inside a beaker that the alone would mix with the Liquid, this is based on the basic science and definition of a solution where there is a solute and a solvent and take the mass of what would become Barium Sulfate. From there we would have to filter the new solution, see how much of
No although there were no set questions listed before we started our experiment three hypotheses were developed one for each procedure. In the following three procedures there will be three separate amounts of Alum used all in different quantities. In procedure 1 the hypothesis was that if we melt 0.01g of Alum grinded into a powder, that it would be fairly similar to the literature temperature of 92 .5 degrees Celsius, and his hypothesis was based on the ideal knowledge that anytime you have 0.01g of Alum it would have the same or similar melting point. In procedure two the hypothesis was that if we took 2.00g of Alum crystals and heated it in a covered Crucible to drive off any water that the mass anhydrous Alum would decrease, this hypothesis was developed with the idea that all things contain H2O and if we eliminate that H2O and its mass that, the anhydrous substance itself would decrease in mass. Finally in procedure three hypothesis was that if we take 1.00g of Alum and mixed it with 50mL of distilled water, and 40mL of Barium Nitrate inside a beaker that the alone would mix with the Liquid, this is based on the basic science and definition of a solution where there is a solute and a solvent and take the mass of what would become Barium Sulfate. From there we would have to filter the new solution, see how much of