Practicals Paper 2 Flashcards
What safety precaution should you use for irritant and corrosive
Wear goggles
Safety precaution for flammable
Keep away from naked flames
3 safety precautions for toxic substances
Wear gloves
Avoid skin contact
Wash hand after use
When removing water of crystallisation why should you not use large amount said calcium sulfate like 50g
Why can’t you use a wet crucible
Why can’t you use small amounts like 0.1g
Incomplete decomposition
Wet gives inaccurate result - mass loss would be too large as that water would also be lost
Percentage uncertainty would be too high
What to note down when measuring gas syringe reading
Temperature and pressure of room as that is what the volume of gas depends on
What are 3 potential errors when saying a gas syringe
Gas escapes before bung inserted
Syringe sticks
Some gases are water soluble so the true amounts isn’t measured
What is the method of making a standard solution
Use weigh re weigh method to measure sample
Add to beaker
Add 100 cm distilled water and stir glass rod
Pour into 250 volumetric flask
Put washing from beaker into it
Make up to mark below meniscus with distilled water
Invert to ensure a uniform solution
What’s better to than a measuring cylinder
Volumetric pipette
General method for carrying out a titration
Rinse the equipment with what it will be filled with (burette is acid pipette is alkali and conical flask with distilled water )
Pipette 25cm alkali into conical flask - touch surface of alkali with pipette to ensure correct amount of
Add acid solution from burrete
Make sure jet space is filled with acid
Add few drops of indicator and refer to end point colour change
Use white tile to help observe colour change
Swirling mixture while adding acid and add dropwise toward endpoint
Note b burrete reading before and after adding acid
Repeate until 2 concordant results
Why is a conical flask preferred in titrations
Easier to swirl the mixture without spilling
Why is distilled water used to wash out the conical flask in titrations
It doesn’t affect the moles of the reagents
How to calculate percentage uncertainty
Uncertainty / measurement
X100
How to decrease percentage uncertainty in titrations
Increase volume and concentration of substance in conical flask
Reduce concentration of substance in burette
How to reduce uncertainty when measuring mass
Use a mass balance requiring more decimal places
Use a larger mass
Weigh re weigh method
What is the method for measuring the enthalpy change of anhydrous copper sulfate
Weigh out 3.9 to 4.1 g anhydrous copper sulfate (weigh re weigh )
Using a volumetric pipette place 25cm water into a polystyrene cup
Record temp at beginning
Record temp again for 0,1,2,3
At fourth minute add powder don’t record temp
Stir continuously
Re weight bottle
Take temp at minute 5 for 15 minutes
Plot graph of temp (y) against time (x)
Draw 2 line of best fit
Extrapolate to 4th minute
Use q = equation to calculate delta h
Repeats method with hydrated copper sulfate
Calculate final enthalpy
What are 2errors of measuring enthalpy change of solution practical
Heat loss to surroundings
Specific heat capacity and density taken to be same as water
What is the Hess law diagram for RP2
Photo
3 errors when measuring combustion enthalpy was using a flame calorimeter
Incomplete combustion of fuel
Evaporation of fuel
Heat loss