Student Name: Cory Lincoln Student ID:4000677 Date:16 Apr 2012 Course and Section Number: SCIN1 1 !

00 Lesson 5 Lab: Dilutions and the Potato Cannon

PART 1 Begin by viewing the following Thinkwell video 27.1.5 CIA Demonstration: Dilutions After you watch the above video, answer the questions below in sufficient detail: (a) (4 pts.) What are the two most important pieces of glassware in this lab demonstration? What is special about these two pieces of glassware that would warrant them to be used in this particular lab? Why these as opposed to, say a graduated cylinder, a beaker, a graduated pipette, etc.? Answer: The most important pieces are a volumetric pipette & volumetric flask. These two pieces are special because they are of a known volume. These are used because you know the exact volume of what is in them +/- 0.05ml. (b) Suppose you were required to make a solution by diluting 15.0 mL of an aqueous solution to a final volume of 500 mL. [i] (4 pts.) Describe, in as much detail as possible, the entire dilution process from beginning to end as described in this lab. How are the two solutions properly mixed together? What is the role of the meniscus in this process? Answer: First, you draw 15.0 ml of the solution with a volumetric pipette. Second, you transfer that to the volumetric flask. Third, you begin transferring deionized water into the flask. You can do this initially by pouring, stopping every so often to swirl the solution so that it mixes. Once it gets close to the fill line, you can use an eye dropper to bring it to the line. Once the full amount is in the volumetric flask, you can use a little bit of grease on the stopper prior to inserting it, then you turn the flask over to be certain it is fully mixed. The meniscus is important because it is the interface between the solution and the air. The lowest part of the solution it what must reach the fill line, but not go over. [ii] (2 pts.) When preparing this solution, you accidentally go over the fill line. Your lab partner says not to worry about it, and advises you to just suck out a little of the solution off the top with a pipette until it is below the line. But your friend next to you from one lab group over advises against it, and suggests you

just start over from the beginning, even though lab class is about over! To whom should you listen, and why? Explain. Answer: You should listen to the friend who says to start over, because you can not just take a little out since it is still diluted to something more than the proper dilution. (c) (2 pts.) In your own words, how would you define the term dilution? Give a specific example and explain how you use the concept of dilution in your everyday life. Answer: Dilution is adding a filler of some kind to the main item or activity. I use to concept in relation to sports drinks, they're much more concentrated than I enjoy, so I dilute them with water.

PART 2 Please watch the following Thinkwell video: 5.1.6 CIA Demonstration: The Potato Cannon

After you watch the above video, answer the questions below in sufficient detail: (a) (4 pts.) What two gas laws (names and definitions) are responsible for how/why the Potato Cannon (a.k.a. spud gun) works? How so? Explain how these laws are working here after the gun ignites to expel the potato. Answer: The two laws are Charles's Law (volume increases when temperature increase) and Avogadro's Law (volume increases when the number of moles increases). The combined volume expansion due to the two laws fires the potato out of the (b) (4 pts.) Suppose it is a hot summer day (32 degrees C), and you have left a can of hairspray outside so the gas within it is now at the same temperature of its surroundings. As part of your chemistry lab class, you have to build a safe and effective potato gun to share with the local elementary school, and you must be sure that the combustion chamber is well insulated and will not harm (burn) the shooter. You spray the warm hairspray into the 4.0 L chamber on your gun. You seal the cap, then ignite it, and the resulting gas expands to 17.0 L as the potato is shot out. What is the final temperature, in Celsius, inside the combustion chamber? What is this temperature in Fahrenheit? [SHOW ALL WORK TO RECEIVE CREDIT] Answer: (32C= 305K) / 4.0 L = 76.25 K/L = (1296.25 K = 1023.25C) / 17.0 L The final temperature is 1023.25C, or 1873.85 F

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