Laboratory 3. Empirical Formula Of An Oxide This experiment will demonstrate the law of conservation of mass‚ and more specifically‚ how the law can be used to experimentally determine the empirical formula of our intended product‚ magnesium oxide. In this experiment we will learn how to: 1. heat a sample in a crucible with a Bunsen burner. 2. use the method of weight by difference to determine mass quantities. 3. convert grams to moles. 4. determine the simplest ratio between two
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Experiment 5 Determination of Empirical Formulas of Hydrate and Oxide Compounds Room #216 Locker# 1137 Date of Experiment: May 11‚ 2014 Date of Submission: May 16‚ 2014 Purpose: To determine the identity of an unknown hydrated salt calculating the percent water loss after heating and also to determine the empirical formula of magnesium oxide. Results: Table 1: Determination of the mass of waters of hydration of an unknown hydrated compound. Hydrated Compound code: C-14 Mass
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Melissa Carrithers 9-17-14 Period: 6 Determination of the Empirical Formula of Silver Oxide Purpose: To find the percent composition and empirical formula of silver oxide can then be calculated‚ based on combining the ratios of silver and oxygen in the reaction. Hypothesis: Silver oxide decomposes to silver metal and oxygen when strongly heated. Heating Silver oxide causes the oxygen to be driven off‚ leaving only the silver metal behind. The total mass of the products of a chemical reaction must
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Analysis of a Copper Sulfate Sample Empirical Formula of Hydrous Copper Sulfate Joel Ramirez 9/25/2012 10/2/2012 The purpose of this experiment is to find the empirical formula of a hydrous copper sulfate sample and the amount of water in the sample. This whole process will be determined in three different experiments. Procedure: Experiment 1 – Percentage of water in sample. The percentage of water in hydrous copper sulfate was determined. Clean‚ dry and weight the crucible
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Glavin Wiechert Group Member: Victoria Coe Due Date: May 2‚ 2011 Teacher: Louth‚ Ellen Mary Class: Chemistry 11 Ad Introduction: An empirical formula of a chemical compound is the ratio of atoms in simplest wholenumber terms of each present element in the compound. For example‚ Glucose is C H O ; it’s empirical formula is CH O. 6 12 6 2 A hydrate is a compound that is chemically combined with water molecules. In contrast‚ an anhydrate does not contain water‚ and has had all of its water removed
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the Empirical Formula for Zinc Chloride Name:__________________________________________ Course______ Period:____ Prelab Show your Calculations for the following problems 1. How many grams of sulfur would combine with 26.1 g of potassium to form K2S? 2. A 1.31g sample of sulfur was reacted with chlorine to form 4.22g of compound. What is the empirical formula of the compound? 3. 0.256g of a lanthanum oxide was decomposed and produced 0.219g of lanthanum. What is the empirical formula
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31 Introduction- Magnesium is a silvery-white alkaline metal found represent by the atomic number of 12. This experiment involves combining Magnesium with Oxygen which is a gas represented by the chemical element 8. The word equation for the result of this experiment is Magnesium + Oxygen= Magnesium Oxide. The equation is Mg + O =MgO Definitions Word Definitions Mass Number The Mass number is the amount of Protons and Neutrons in the Nucleus. Atomic Number The amount of protons found
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Magnesium‚ an abundant mineral in the body‚ is naturally present in many foods‚ added to other food products‚ available as a dietary supplement‚ and present in some medicines (such as antacids and laxatives). Magnesium is a cofactor in more than 300 enzyme systems that regulate diverse biochemical reactions in the body‚ including protein synthesis‚ muscle and nerve function‚ blood glucose control‚ and blood pressure regulation [1-3]. Magnesium is required for energy production‚ oxidative phosphorylation
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Sodium chloride‚ also known as salt‚ common salt‚ table salt‚ or halite‚ is an ionic compound with the formula NaCl. Sodium chloride is the salt most responsible for the salinity of the ocean and of the extracellular fluid of many multicellular organisms. As the major ingredient in edible salt‚ it is commonly used as a condiment and food preservative. [edit] Properties Thermal conductivity of pure NaCl as a function of temperature has a maximum of 2.03 W/(cm K) at 8 K and decreases to 0.069 at 314
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Aim: to perform a firsthand investigation to compare the physical and chemical properties of magnesium and oxygen when they are experimented to form magnesium oxide Theory: The empirical formula of a compound is the formula that tells us the ratio in which the atoms are present in the compound. To calculate an empirical formula: - Write down the masses of all of the elements present - Convert masses to moles (by dividing by atomic weights in grams) - Divide through by the smallest number of
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