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Brassspectophotometerlab
Brassspectophotometerlab
Per 1
1/28/14
Mr.Cain
Brass/Spectrophotometer Lab Report
Purpose- To find the relationship between color, wavelength, absorbance, and molar
concentration and to find the mass percent of copper in brass with color and wavelength.
Materials-Spectrophotometer, Concentrated 15.8 M Nitric Acid (HNO3), 10 mL of 0.400
M Copper II Nitrate (Cu(NO3)2), Distilled Water, Brass sample, Pipettes, Graduated Cylinder,
Balance for the Brass Sample, Cuvette (1 cm diameter), Beakers, Volumetric Flask.
Prelab-
Part 3)
Part 4)
ConclusionThe purpose of this lab is to find the relationship between color, wavelength, absorbance,
and molar concentration of a solution and to find the mass percent of copper in brass with color
and wavelength percentages. We first had to get the nitric acid and the brass sample react under
the fume hood, because the gas it produces is toxic to our health. Going back to part 2, we
needed 4.5 ml of 15.8 M HNO3 to fully react with our 1.7 grams of brass. In part 3 and 4, we
took the Cu(NO3)2 and made our dilutions of it, so that later we can place it in the
spectrophotometer and find our percent transmission. I chose to graph and use trial 2, because in
trial 1 we had incomplete data, giving us incomplete graphs, which in turn makes our lab
inconsistent. We made .4, .2, .1, .05, and .025 molarity solutions of Cu(NO3)2 we then graphed
our data points, as shown in part 4. by visually looking at the samples, we found that the
unknown solution of Cu(NO3)2 is close to the .200M Cu(NO3)2 with 82.4% of copper in the
brass sample. Over all this lab was relatively faster than I anticipated and not much work was
needed to complete this lab, such as doing multiple trials or calculations. In this lab, I thought
that the gas produced, was pretty cool, with the brownish color it gave of, too bad it was toxic to
our health, otherwise I would of asked to take a whiff of it.