Thursday, December 10, 2015

Iron Chloride Lab

On day 1 of the of the lab we did very simply steps. We simply had to get the mass of our equipment and mix together 50mL of water with approximately 7.50g of Copper(2) Chloride in a baby jar. We placed our nail in this mixture overnight and we will wait to see what happens.

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Quiz

Today we had our quiz over this unit and I found it particularly challenging. The conversions seemed harder than the notes we did in class.

To help me do batter for the unit test I found some websites with practice problems and more in depth notes.

More Notes

Practice Problems

Tutorial

Day 2 Stoichiometry



There are 2 approaches to this lecture. Personally, I liked the second approach better. It was more compact and it was all one step. I did not understand the part of subtracting from the original to find excess reactants. 

Sunday, December 6, 2015

Day 1 Stoichiometry

Must always start with a balanced chemical equation and if in doubt convert to moles! 


Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Reactivity Lab


Today's lab was easy and so was the pre-lab quiz. Out of all the solids Calcium reacted the most while Lead never reacted with and of the liquids. I do not think my lab group waited long enough for all reactions to occur and we may have missed some:(