Le Chateliers Principle

Lab Report 2
General chemistry ll _ summer sessin

Bezawit wube

1. To determine the effect of a

change on a system at
equilibrium

2. To correlate the observed responses with Le Chateliers principle

Procedure:

Part 1: Le Chateliers Principle

Tap water
Beaker, 50 mL, plastic
Toothpicks
Distilled water
Crushed ice
Coffee spoons
Rubber bands

Magnifier, dual
Pencil, marking
Thermometer-in-cardboard-

tube
Well-Plate-24

Part I
1. Prepare an ice water bath by partially filling one of the 50-mL beakers from your LabPaq with
tap water and crushed ice. Set aside.
2. Prepare a hot water bath by partially filling the second 50-mL beakers from your LabPaq with
Very hot tap water. Set aside.
3. Using a 24-well plate add 5 drops of 2.0 M MgCl2, magnesium chloride solution to wells C1
and

C2. Add 10 drops to wells C3 and C4.

4. Add 1 drop of phenolphthalein to wells C1, C2, C3 and C4. Stir with a clean toothpick.
5. Add 5 drops of 1.0 M NaOH, sodium hydroxide solution to wells C1, C2, C3, and C4. Stir and
record your observations.
6. Add 1 drop of 6.0 M HCl, hydrochloric acid solution to well C1. Stir and record your
observations.
Continue to add HCl drop-by-drop to well C1 until you see a color change. Record your
observations.
7. Add 1 drop of 0.15 M Na2EDTA to well C2. Stir and record your observations. Continue to
add
Na2EDTA drop-by-drop to well C2 until you see a color change. Record your observations.
8. Use the marker pencil to label an empty pipet C3. Then, squeeze the pipets bulb, place it
in well C3s solution, and slowly release the bulb to carefully suck up all the mixture from the
well into the bulb.
9. You need to place the pipet bulb from Step 8 into the hot water bath, but it will tend to float.
To avoid this, securely attach the pipet stem to a spoon handle with a rubber band. Then place
the pipet bulb in the water bath with the spoon handle outside of the beaker so as to not
obstruct your observations.

10. Repeat Steps 8 and 9 with a second pipet filled with the mixture from well C4. Place this
pipet
into the cold water bath.
11. As the temperature of the mixtures in the pipets changes, record your observations.
12. After about 10 minutes, exchange the pipets in the baths. (Put the pipet from the cold water
bath into the hot water bath and vice versa).
13. Dispose of your solutions by pouring them down the drain with running water. Rinse your
24well plate and dry it. Remove the marker pencil marks from the pipets and rinse them well by
sucking up distilled water and squeezing it out. They will be used in the next part, so dry the
pipets as well as possible by squeezing their bulbs repeatedly and tapping the tips on a hard
surface covered with a paper towel
Part II
Again prepare hot and cold water baths as instructed in Part I, Steps 1 and 2.
Note: the reactions in Part II are much more subtle than those in Part I. You may have to wait 30
seconds or longer and look very carefully to observe the reaction and changes taking place! Use
your magnifier to better see the changes.
1. Using a 24-well plate, add 5 drops of NaHSO4 sodium bisulfate solution to wells A1, A2, and

A3. Add 10 drops to wells A4 and A5.

2. Add one drop of thymol blue indicator to each well. Stir with a clean toothpick and record
your observations.
3. Add one drop of Na2SO4 sodium sulfate solution to well A1 and stir with a clean toothpick.
Compare the color of well A1 with that of well A2. Record your results.
4. Repeat Step 3, drop-by-drop, until you see a color change. Record your observations.
5. Add a few crystals of solid NaHSO4 to well A3. Stir with a clean toothpick, wait a while, and
record your observations. Compare the color of well A3 with that of well A2. Record your
observations.
6. Repeat Step 5 until you see a color change. Record your observations.
7. Use the marker pencil to label an empty pipet A4. Then squeeze the pipet bulb, place it in
well A4s solution, and slowly release the bulb to carefully suck up all the mixture into the
bulb.
8. You need to place the pipet bulb from Step 7 into the hot water bath, but it will tend to float.
To avoid this securely attach the pipet stem to a spoon handle with a rubber band. Then place
the pipet bulb in the water bath, with the spoon handle outside of the beaker so as to not
obstruct your observations.

9. Make sure the water bath is as hot as possible. If the water bath is not very hot the expected
color change may be difficult to see. Place the pipet bulb from step 8 into the hot water bath.
Record the beginning temperature of the hot water bath.
10. Repeat Steps 7 and 8 with a second pipet for the mixture from well A5. Place this pipet into
the cold water bath.
11. Record the beginning temperature of the cold water bath.
12. When you observe changes in the mixtures in the pipets record your observations and the
water bath temperatures.
13. Compare the final solutions to that in well A2 and record your observations.
14. After about 10 minutes exchange the pipets in the baths. (Put the pipet from the cold water
bath into the hot water bath and vice versa.) Record your observations.
15. Dispose of your solutions by pouring them down the drain with running water. Rinse and
thoroughly dry your 24-well plate. Rinse your pipets thoroughly with distilled water. Dry the
pipets as well as possible by squeezing their bulbs repeatedly and tapping the tips on a hard
surface covered with a paper towel.

Question &Answer
Part 1
A. Which way should the equilibrium shift when HCl is added? How do your results support
you answer?
It should shift to the left because adding any component causes the equilibrium to shift to
the opposite side.
B. Which way should the equilibrium shift when Na2EDTA is added? How do your results
support your answer?
It should shift to the right because the removal of a component causes the equilibrium to
shift to the side from which the component was removed.
C. Is this reaction endothermic or exothermic? How do you know?

Part 2
A. Which way should the equilibrium shift when Na2SO4 is added? How do your results
support your answer?
It should shift to the left because adding any component causes the equilibrium to shift to
the opposite side.
B. Which way should the equilibrium shift when NaHSO4 is added? How do your results
support your answer?

 It should shift to the right because the removal of a component causes the equilibrium to
shift to the side from which the component was removed.
C. Is this reaction endothermic or exothermic? How do you know?

Conclusions
At the completion of this lab in the chemical reaction occurs when reactants are made into
products at the same rate
as products revert to reactants. These two opposing changes occur simultaneously. Le Chateliers
principle says that when a system at equilibrium is put under stress it will correct itself to relieve
the stress and reestablish equilibrium. If a chemical system at equilibrium undergoes a change in
concentration, temperature, volume, or partial pressure, the equilibrium will shift to counter the
change and establish a new equilibrium. Frequently, the concept is used to increase the yield of
reactions. By changing concentration, temperature, volume, or partial pressure we can increase
or decrease the yield of products. There are two ways to alter the equilibrium composition of a
reaction and possibly increase the amount of product.