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W7 Colligative Lab
W7 Colligative Lab
You would know if the probes continued to read an increasing temperature even after boiling has
begun because the graph would level out when it begins boiling and then would continue to
increase a little later when there is enough steam to effect it significantly.
One mole of magnesium chloride would be better to sprinkle on a frozen walkway because it
dissociates into more ions than potassium chloride, making the i value greater. This makes
the freezing point depression larger.
3. What, specifically, is the effect of a solute on ice? Does the ice melt because it gets
warmer?
Solute effects ice by lowering the freezing point of the ice. Ice doesn’t not melt because it gets
warmer, it melts because the freezing point is now lower.
If a significant amount of our solvent boiled away then the experimental/calculated molar mass
of our compound would increase because there would be less solvent thus a higher molality.
5. You run the compound in experiment 2 through a mass spectrometer to analyze the
composition. Only carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms are found. You find that the
sample contains 38.7% carbon and 9.68% hydrogen. What is the empirical formula of
the compound? Using your experimental data, what is the apparent molecular formula
of the compound? Show all work below.