Lab report
By Sam M. & Mackenzie C.
Introduction
rinking sugary beverages every day can significantly impact your health. Those who consume sugary
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drinks daily face a 31% elevated risk of death from heart disease compared to people who drink less than
one serving of a sugary drink per month. Thetwo key goals: first, to create and contrast the different
concentrations of sugar solutions. Meaning that the darker the color the higher the concentration.
Secondly, to determine theunknown concentration of a solution. Upon concluding the pre-lab
calculations, solution A was revealed to be theleast concentrated at 1.75 grams of sugar. Solution D
followed with a concentration of 7.53 grams, then solution B at 12.4 grams, with solution C exhibiting the
highest density at 21.5 grams of sugar.
Materials
● patula
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● Digital scale
● Rubber Stopper
● Volumetric flask (100 ml)
● Weighing boat
● Test tubes
● Sugar- drink powder
● Water
● Test tube rack
Procedure
Part A
Step 1: zero out the weighing boat on the digitalscale,
Step 2: measure the required amount of sugar powderinto the weighing boat using the provided spatula.
tep 3: take the needed amount and pour it into thevolumetric flask, then put some water in so we could
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dissolve it before filling the flask up to the 100ml (about 3.38 oz) line
Step 4: close it with the rubber stopper and shakeit until everything is fully dissolved.
Step 5: Then very carefully pour the mixture into a test tube and place it on the test tube rack.
tep 6: discard the remaining liquid in the flask,and rinse it clean to be able to repeat all these steps over
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again for solutions B, C, and D.
tep 7: Once all that is finished, and all the differenttest tubes filled with the different mixtures, they are
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placed in order from most concentrated to least concentrated.
Part B
Step 1: compare the given mixture E to all our preparedsolution from part A
Step 2: figure out what its concentration may be ingrams/liter (g/L)
RESULTS
SOLUTION MOST TO LEAST
CONCENTRATED BASED
ON COLOR
A 5
B 2
C 1
D 3
E 4
OBSERVATIONS
SOLUTION WHAT WAS OBSERVED
A Very light shade of red
B Dark red
C Very dark red
D ight red but darker then
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solution E
E ight red but darker then
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solution A
Calculations
Solution A: prepare 100ml of a 1.75(m/v) solutionusing the given solute
1.75% 𝑚
00𝑚𝑙
1
= 100𝑚𝑙
𝑚 = 1. 75𝑔
Solution B: prepare 100ml of a 124g/l solution usingthe given solute
1. 24𝑔/𝐿 × 0. 1𝐿 = 12. 4𝑔
Solution C: prepare 100ml of a 215 000-ppm solutionusing the given solute
𝑚𝑔
𝑝𝑝𝑚 = 𝐿
2150
00𝑚𝑔 𝑚
1𝐿
= 0.1𝐿
𝑚 = 21. 5𝑔
olution D: prepare 100ml of a 0.22 mol/L solutionusing the given solute. (assume that solute is 100%
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sugar: C12H2 2O11)
144. 12 + 22. 22 + 176 = 342. 34
𝑚
0. 22𝑚𝑜𝑙/𝐿 = 0.1𝐿
𝑚
𝑛 = 0. 022𝑚𝑜𝑙 = 342.34𝑔/𝑚𝑜𝑙
→ 𝑚 = 7. 53𝑔
Analysis
1.75𝑔
𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝐴 = 0.1𝐿
= 17. 5𝑔
/ 𝐿
7.53𝑔
𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝐷 = 0.1𝐿
= 75. 3𝑔
/𝐿
he color of E was darker than A and very close to D. One can assume that solution E was of a
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concentration between 17.5g/L and 75.3g/L nearest to 75.3g/L
Conclusion
c oncentration in chemistry simply describes the quantity of a material in a specific area. Concentration
can also be defined as the ratio of solute to solvent or total solution in a solution. Typically, concentration
is stated as mass per unit volume. The comparison of concentrations among solutions A to D revealed
their proximity to specific values. In this instance, the closest match was to solution D, situated between
solutions A and D. The analysis led to the determination that solution E exhibits a concentration between
17.5g/L and 75.3g/L but closer to 75g/L. The light color of E matched closely to the light color of
solution D, the light coloring was caused by the smaller amount of solute (koo-laid powder) dissolved
into the solvent (water) resulting in a low concentrated solution. Solution D has a low concentration
(75.3g/L) so solution E would have a closely related concentration.There was only one source of error
throughout this experiment and that was the fact that to put the test tubes in order from least to most
concentrated it involved using your eyes to differentiate between them which isn’t very specific or
precise. To get better and more accurate results they could have provided us with a spectrophotometer that
gives perfect and specific precision to the nearest decimal.
