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Molar Mass Of Volatile Liquid Lab Report

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Molar Mass of a Volatile Liquid

2.Objective- We receive a unknown volatile liquid and try to find it's molar mass.In order to do this we must know how to convert units of measurements and the formula required.

3.Introduction- In order to do this experiment you must know certain terms and formulas. Molar mass is defined as one mole of this substance. The molar mass is what we are trying to find.One equation use d to find molar mass is MW=m/n. Another thing needed to know is the Ideal Gas Law. The equation used for this is PV=nRT.

4.List of materials/equipment and Safety Precautions
-Hot Plate
-Graduated Cylinder
-Beaker
-Clamp
-Florence Flask
-Aluminum Foil
-Ringstand

Safety Precautions- One thing to make sure you do is clear you're table of book bags,food,clothing, etc. I say this because we are working with chemicals and a hot plate which can be dangerous if theses items are next to them. Also when we are heating the volatile liquid which is in the florence flask we have to make sure that the flask isn't touching the beaker in which we are heating it in. This prevents the beaker from breaking …show more content…

When we had to heat the volatile liquid we ended up heating it for to long. We couldn't really see the volatile liquid when it was in the hot water bath. There was to much bubbling and we couldn't see if the liquid turned to a gas. Our molar mass ended up being 16.28 g/mol which was to low and thats because the unknown liquid lost all it's mass because of overeating.

8.Conlcusion- The main goal for this experiment was to find the molar mass of a unknown volatile liquid. We ended up getting the wrong answer because of a source of error. It is important that you understand the formulas used in this experiment. Both MW=m/n and PV=nRT are needed for this experiment.Our Unknown volatile liquid had a molar mass of 60g/mol and it is called Loopropy

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