CHEMISTRY - SEMESTER 1 – EXPERIMENT 5

(RAWID GOSHAN A/L RAWID CHENDRAN 6BS1)

‘;MATERIALS :
1. KA1 – 0.100 mol dm-3 of M2+ ion
2. KA2 – 0.500 mol dm-3 of X- ion

PROCEDURE :

KA1 KA2

Leave for 5 minutes Til all precipitate

dissolve
12.00 cm3 of KA1 +
3
12.00 cm of KA1 [KA2 til precipitate/
for stated volume]

Record temperature
when precipitate reform

RESULTS :

Volume of Volume of Temperature of the first Solubility product,

Experiment
KA1/cm3 KA2/cm3 appearance of precipitate/oC Ksp/ mol3 dm-9
1 12.00
2 12.00 7.00
3 12.00 9.00
4 12.00 11.00
5 12.00 13.00

QUESTIONS :
a. Calculate Ksp of compound MX2 at each temperature and record in table.
b. Plot a graph of Ksp against temperature.
c. From graph, determine the Ksp of MX2 at 50oC.
d. i) Tabulate data and plot a graph of log10Ksp against 1/T and calculate the
enthalpy change, ∆Hsol
ii) Is the reaction endothermic or exothermic? Why?