Making Salts

Question 1

How are salts made?

Answer 1

Neutralisation of the acid with a base

Question 2

Step 1

Answer 2

Measure 40cm cubed of the acid into a measuring tube, then pour into the beaker.

Question 3

Step 2

Answer 3

To speed up the reaction up, put some gentle heat (using tripod and gauze over a bunsen burner)

Question 4

Step 3

Answer 4

Carefully take the beaker off the heat (holding the beaker from the top) then add an excess amount of your base into the beaker of acid to neutralise the acid

Question 5

Step 4

Answer 5

Give the mixture a stir and notice a chemical reaction

Question 6

Step 5

Answer 6

Add a little but more of the base if the mixture still has acid left as we need to neutralise that fully and give another stir to really mix them in

Question 7

Step 6

Answer 7

Get a filter paper and fold it twice, then open it up to three thickness of paper on one side and one on the other , the put into funnel, slowly pouring the solution through the filter paper

Question 8

Step 7

Answer 8

Then after filtering the solution, pour the remaining into an evaporating basin

Question 9

Step 8

Answer 9

Then to evaporate the water, have to heat it gently, one way to do this is to but a tripod and gauze with a beaker of water on top of it then place your beaker of solution on top of that beaker of eater, then using a bunsen burner using high heat boil the water in the beaker under your solution, which the steam of that water will heat up your solution which will eventually dry out the water from your solution leaving just the crystals

Question 10

Step 9

Answer 10

Lastly scrape the remaining crystals on the evaporating basin onto a piece of paper.