Thursday, November 12, 2015
the chloride lab
Conglagerations to everyone in the class for making it into the lab today. This lab was making a chloride by putting zinc and HCl in a beaker and heating them up. This heating drove off the hydrogen and left the zinc and chlorine to bond. We as the "Chemists" had to figure out the formula of the compound after the reaction. Using math we recently learned in class. The math is used when you have the weight of a known element or compound and then there is a reaction. Then one must find what the resulting compound/elements formula is. The lab itself was pretty simple and quite easy to perform. I had a fun time doing it but I wish the end result could be time travel next time.
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It is really cool that everyone was able to get into the lab for the first time since I got the freebie. Simplicity was key as we dealt with the acid with the potency to melt my hands. Glad you had fun!
ReplyDeleteIt was a fun lab. It interested me when the last of the liquid burnt off and there was only the salt left. Time travel would be pretty fun
ReplyDeleteIt was my favorite lab, but that is because it is my only lab. It was a cool lab since we got to make salt out of two different substances.
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