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Understanding The Law of Conservation of Mass Power Point-1
Understanding The Law of Conservation of Mass Power Point-1
Conservation of Mass
Who Discovered this Law?
• 1789, France
• Antoine Lavoisier
• Nobleman
• Statesman
• Scientist
• Used one of the first analytical mass balances to
prove this law.
• Executed on the guillotine during the French
Revolution.
• He is known as the “Father of Chemistry”
because he made it a quantitative science.
What does the Law of Conservation
of Mass State?
• During any chemical reaction, matter is
neither created nor destroyed. Mass is
conserved from reactants to products.
• Therefore,
MASS REACTANTS = MASS PRODUCTS
What does the law really mean?
CH4 (g) + 2O2 (g) CO2 (g) + 2H2O (l)
How does this picture show that particles and therefore mass are conserved
from reactant’s side to product’s side?
What is all that really happens to the particles in a chemical reaction?
Can atoms of one type be changed into (transformed) atoms of another type
during a chemical reaction?
Note about showing “conservation” in
particle diagrams
If you have the reaction:
A2 + B2 A3B
+
16g + 64g = Xg
80 g = X
Another Problem…
• If 32 grams of CH4 reacts completely with
128 g of O2, and 88 g of CO2 forms, how
many grams of H2O form?
CH4 (g) + 2O2 (g) CO2 (g) + 2H2O (l)
32 g + 128 g = 88 g + X
160 g = 88 g + X
72 g = X
Another Problem…
• If 8 grams of CH4 react completely with
oxygen, and 22 g of CO2 and 9 g of H2O
form, how much oxygen (O2) was
consumed?
CH4 (g) + 2O2 (g) CO2 (g) + 2H2O (l)
8g + X = 22 g + 9g
8g + X = 31 g
X = 23 g
Last Problem
• 4 grams of CH4 reacts with 20 g of O2. The CH4
is used up completely but there is some O2 left
over. Given that 20 grams of product was
formed, how much oxygen was used up?
CH4 (g) + 2O2 (g) CO2 (g) + 2H2O (l)
4g + X = 20 g
X = 16 grams oxygen used up