Lab 2 Alka-Seltzer Report

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Kathleen Castro Luis Veliz 09/22/2022 Alka-Seltzer Lab On Thursday, September 22 nd , we did a lab regarding stoichiometry measurements and how they’re used in a reaction by using Alka-Seltzers. The procedures were followed as written in the lab notebook. What we are trying to figure out in this lab is how the mass of NaHCO3 increases while we increase the amount of vinegar we use. For our experiment, it does look like we messed up somewhere along the way, since there was a huge spike from our first run, that had 100% water, to our second run, that had 83% water (or an 10:50 vinegar/water ratio). Then that spike dropped back down during our third run. I’ll show the graph we had below. It does show that near the end, the mass% of NaHCO3 starts to plateau off, so if we would have 100% vinegar, it would likely be around the same amount of mass%. This likely means that the acid in the NaCHO3 (H+) would be the limiting reactant. The limiting reactant is the first thing to be consumed in a reaction, meaning it limits just how much of a reaction can be made. If we were to have a different limiting reactant, such as HCl, the graph would most likely have a much higher initial jump during run 2, then it would most likely have more extreme of numbers. We would need a much bigger graph. Different calculations we used are shown below. CO32-+H CO2+H2O (balance) CO32-+ 2 H CO2+H2O All we did to balance the equation was add another H. I will show our table below, but our other calculations shown were how we got mass% of NaHCO3. What we did was divide the mass reacted in each run by the mass of the Alka-Seltzer in each run. (the Alka-Seltzer was always 3.2 g). the reasoning for this is because we are trying to see the percentage of mass reacted, so we divide the reacted mass by original mass to learn the difference of the two. And example of this would be from run 1, where we did: 1.15 g/mol /3.2 g = 35.94%
Graph of vinegar used to NaHCO3% 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 Percent by mass of reacted NaHCO3 in a given tablet Vinegar Used /mL Mass % NaHCO3 in Tablet This graph is showing the mL of vinegar used on the x axis to mass% of NaHCO3 on the y axis. Table of all facts and calculations during experiment. This table is showing all facts, from the weights of each object to the calculations made to find mass% for each of our 6 runs.
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