Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Molarity, Molarity, and Percent Concentration

Example: What is the molarity of a solution prepared by dissolving 15.0 g of sodium hydroxide in enough water to make a total of 225 mL of solution?
Method 1:
  • Calculate the number of moles of solute present.
    mol NaOH
    =
    30.0g NaOH
    x
    1 mol NaOH
    80.0 g NaOH
    mol NaOH=0.750 mol NaOH  

  • Calculate the number of liters of solution present.
    L soln
    =
    500 mL
    x
    1 L
    =
    0.500 L soln
    2000 mL
  • Divide the number of moles of solute by the number of liters of solution.
    M=
    0.750 mol NaOH
    =1.67 M NaOH
    0.500 L soln

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

le chatelier's principle

In 1884 the French chemist and engineer Henry-Louis Le Chatelier proposed one of the central concepts of chemical equilibria. Le Chatelier's principle can be stated as follows: A change in one of the variables that describe a system at equilibrium produces a shift in the position of the equilibrium that counteracts the effect of this change.
Le Chatelier's principle describes what happens to a system when something momentarily takes it away from equilibrium. Changing the concentration of one of the components of the reaction
 changing the pressure on the system
 changing the temperature at which the reaction is run.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Graham's Law Of Effusion

Graham's Law

Rates of diffusion and effusion depends on relative velocities of  gas molecules.  Diffusion is a natural tendency for mobile particles(gas and liquid) to travel continously and to go from areas  of high concentration to areas of low concentration by gradual mixing and virtue of their kinetic properties. 



Recall that average kinetic energy of molecules of any gas equals 1/2mv2 and comparing two different gases:   1/2mv2=1/2mv2

As the mass of a gas increases, the velocity decreases and all gases will have the same average  kinetic energies at a given temperature.

Graham’s Law is written as:





Rate of diffusion of A   =         Molar Mass B
Rate of diffusion of B               Molar Mass A   


Graham’s law of effusion/diffusion  states that the rates of movement of gases at the same temperature and pressure are inversely proportional to the square roots of their molar masses.


Given a specific temperature and pressure, gases will move (diffuse or effuse) faster if their molar mass is low and slower if their molar mass is high.  This is true because their kinetic energy is the same but lighter gases need to travel at greater velocities.


Consider the fragrance industry.  Would we want our cologne or perfume to travel faster or slower.  A lady may get more attention the real purpose of fragrance if it travels faster.  However the fast traveling low mass fragrance would need to be applied more frequently.  This is among the many things to be considered as a chemist in this industry.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

5 Postulates of KMT

  1. A gas consists of a collection of small particles traveling in straight-line motion and obeying Newton's Laws.
  2. The molecules in a gas occupy no volume (that is, they are points).
  3. Collisions between molecules are perfectly elastic (that is, no energy is gained or lost during the collision).
  4. There are no attractive or repulsive forces between the molecules.
  5. The average kinetic energy of a molecule is 3kT/2. (T is the absolute temperature and k is the Boltzmann constant.)
  6. Molecules of a gas have no attraction towards each other.
  7. 7.

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Chemical Reactions

Chemical Reactions can be written in different types of symbolic form but, they have to be under the right temperature and pressure with the proper catalyst, which can greatly increase the rate of its reaction without getting involved in the reaction.  \

1. Combustion: A reaction is when oxygen combines with another compound to form water and carbon dioxide. they are exothermic which prodeuce heat. 

2.Synthesis: Reacton when two or more compounds combine to make a complicated one.

3) Decomposition: reaction is the opposite of a synthesis reaction - a complex molecule breaks down to make simpler ones.

4) Single displacement:  when one element trades places with another element in a compound

5) Double displacement: when the anions and cations of two different molecules switch places, forming two entirely different compounds.

6) Acid-base: This is a special kind of double displacement reaction that takes place when an acid and base react with each other. The H+ ion in the acid reacts with the OH- ion in the base, causing the formation of water 

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Post Lab Rebort P.1

When we put a drop of NaOH into the copper chloride, it went from blue to purple. After it mixed though, it went from black to its original color. When we put the the NaOH in the iron chloride, it turned orange into a darker shade of it after about 3-4 drops.

CONCLUSION: When i added drops of NaOH to the copper chloride, i believe it turned into CuCl3. The phenolphthalen  i believe, is what made the iron & copper chloride turn into a darker shade of its color.
ERROR ANALYSIS: What I believe what i did wrong was that we added to much red/pink phenolphthalen before it began to show clearly . Or maybe an indecisive drop of NaOh into the copper chloride and maybe the mixture wasn't mixed well enough.