Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Isn't a Mole a type of rat?
What is a mole? Is it a animal? It rhyms with hole so does it have something to do with a hole? The way a mole is used in science is to get a common relative mass. The measurement for one mole is 6.02 x 10 raised to the 23 power. You can use the mole for atoms, molecules, and formula units.The molar mass is mass of one mole. The molar mass of an element is the same as the mass on the periodic table. To get the hang of it we did a lab to help us understand it better. First we had to find the molar mass of the Na(HCO subcript 3) and CO subscript 2. On oder to do that we mass the atomic mass bu the number of the element used and add the elements together and that gave us the molar mass. Then we found the theoretical percent of carbon dioxide/ sodium hydrogen carbonate. After we had to get about 4.0 grams of sodium hydrogen carbonate and put it in the Erlenmeyer flask. Next we put 40 mililiters of 3.0 M acetic acid into a 50 mililiter beaker, placed both the flask and th beaker on a tray and massed everything. After we massed everthing we took it all back to our station and poured the acetic acid into the flask slowly and waited for it to stop bubbling so that we knew the reaction had stopped. So we remassed everything subtracted the original mass from the mass of what was left after the reaction to get the mas of what was lost in the expirement. This experiment helped with the understanding of a mole because at the end we had to figure out how many moles where in the compounds and how many atoms or grams where in the one mole of the substance.

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