Demonstration #2

Water Boils

Water Freezes

Degrees Kelvin Fahrenheit

Degrees Celsius

Directions for determining the boiling point of water: 1. Pour 50 ml of water into an Ehrlenmeyer flask. 2. Place the flask onto a ring stand and secure it with a clamp so that it cannot be toppled. 3. Secure a thermometer in a clamp and attach it to the ring stand as shown. Be sure that the tip of the thermometer barely touches the surface of the water. 4. Turn on the Bunsen burner and graph the temperature on the thermometer every 60 seconds. 5. When the water reaches a vigorous boil continue reading the thermometer for two more minutes.

Note:

Read the thermometer from a distance. So not get your face up close to apparatus. The boiling point of pure water at sea level is 100 Celsius. If your thermometer does not read exactly 100 Celsius you must take that into account whenever you use it in an experiment. What did your thermometer read when the water boiled? What factors beside a faulty thermometer could account for one that does not read exactly 100 Celsius in boiling water?