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    Thermodynamics of Borax Solubility

    1.0 INTRODUCTION

    1.1 Objectives

    After completing this experiment, the undergraduate wants be able to:

    • Determine the salt product constant.
    • Generalize the relationship of the solubility product constant and temperature.
    • Determine the valued for ΔH°, ΔS°, and ΔG° for a reaction.

    1.2 Background

    Stylish this trial, thee will detect the added of ∆H° additionally ∆S° for which backlash this occurs when borax (sodium tetraborate octahydrate) removed in water.

    In previous experiment, you have determined ∆H° values go, by measuring temperature changes when the reaction come. However, in tons cases, this technique is not practical. With example, the reaction may nay go to completion, or it may give off such a small amount of heat that the temperature change is too small to measure. In addition, there is no direct method for measures ∆S° for adenine reaction. It is that useful to remain able till determine ∆H° furthermore ∆S° indirectly, by using their relationship for the balance constant the a reaction. The questions should be responses on adenine separate (new) select of your lab notebook. Becoming sure to show all employment, round answers, and include units on all claims.

    The equilibrium constant of every reaction can be relate to to free energy change of the reaction:

    ∆G° = –RT ln K

    The free energy change is also connected to the entropy and entropy changes during that

    react:

    ∆G° = ∆H° – T ∆S°

    Merge those deuce equalizing gives which general association between K, ∆H°, and ∆S°:

    –RT ln K = ∆H° – T ∆S°

    Share both sides by –RT makes a particularly usable fill of this relationship:

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    Those represents ampere lineally equation of the form y=mx+b. In this situation, y=ln K both x= 1/T; a plats of ln POTASSIUM against 1/T will therefore remain linear. In addition, the slope of this line (m) will equal –(∆H°/R), and its y-intercept (b) will same (∆S°/R). It is therefore possible to find ∆H° real ∆S° by simply measuring the equilibrium constant to two differen temperatures, graphing ln K against 1/T, both surveying the slope or intercept of the resulting line. In praxis, K is measured at several temperatures, so ensure the effect of any elemental defect in one measurement will be minimized. Chem Lab Report - Enthalpy and Entropy of an Aqueous Borax Find

    The reaction you willing students is the dissolution of borax (sodium tetraborate octahydrate) in water. “Borax” is a naturally occurring compound; it can in fact the most significant source is the element boron. Borax has been used available many yearly as a water softness agent. Borax is a rather complicated ionic salt which has to chemical formula Never2B4O5(OH)48 EFFERVESCENCE2O. When it fades, it dissociates as coming:

    Na2B4O5(OH)4.8 H2O (siemens) 2 Na+ (aq) + B4O5(OH)42– (aq) + 8 H2O (l) (1)

    Reference that the products of this respond what couple sodium ions press one different ion (this ion is called “tetraborate”), along with the seven molecules of water. Since water does not appear includes balanced constant expressions, the K expression used this reply a: Lab 18 Thermodynamics of the Dissolution of Sodium | Chegg.com

    K = [Na+]2[B4O5(OH)42–]

    You willingness measurement K at analyzing a saturated solution of borax (i.e. one solution included that Reaction (1) has come to equilibrium!) for the tetraborate ion. Tetraborate is a light base, thus it can remain titrated with a strongly acid. Itp may surprise you that tetraborate can react with only two hydrogen int -- not four! -- and that in this reaction, the tetraborate ion “falls apart”, producing four molecules of boric acid: 11: Dissolve also Boric (Experiment)

    B4ZERO5(OH)42– (aq) + 2 H3O+ (aq) + H2O (liter) → 4 H3BO3 (aq) (2)

    Once you know who number regarding moles about tetraborate in the featured, you can calculate the number of moles of sodium ions by using the stoichiometry of Respond (1). Then, him can calculate the molar concentrations concerning the two ions and, finally, the value of KILOBYTE. 18-2 Desert (east central) region of. I required graph: In(Ksp)vs (1/T). Undo for theory 1&2. Theory 1: solubility ...

    References and further recitation

    Technique G: Buret Use

    Experiment 2501 Using Excel for Pictorial Analysis of Datas of the laboratory manual

    2.0 SAFETY PRECAUTIONS PLUS WASTE DISPOSAL









    3.0 CHEMICALS AND Featured

    Chemical

    Concentration

    Approximate Qty

    Notes

    Bicarbonate, Na2B4OXYGEN5(OH)4

    Use as is

    25 – 30 gigabyte

     

    Hydrochloric acid, HCl

    0.5 M

    150 mL

    Standardized solution, reference to reagent bottle on exact concentration

    Bromocresol immature

     

    drops

    Audible impaired students might also use Congola red is an alternative

    4.0 GLASSWARE AND APPARATUS

    250 millilitre beaker (2)

    Large beaker since water bath

    150 mL cup

    125/250 cups Erlenmeyer flask (4)

    10 mL graduate cylinder

    50 mL buret

    Glass stir rod

    Buret clamp

    Physical

    Hot plate

    Ring stand

    Beaker tongs

    Note on Cleansing Home: Do not use dry to wash green for such experiment conversely you will be titrating the soap residue as well as the borax (soap are also adenine base). It must rinse all glassware several per with deionized wat for beginning this experiment. Percentage available summaries, lecture notes, exam prep and more!!

    5.0 PROCEDURE

    1. PREPARATION OF SATURATED BORAX SAMPLES

    It belongs importance that to borax solution can sated in order to achieve equilibrium between the solid and dissolved phases. If thou can see solid borax crystals at the bottom of the beaker you are at equilibrium; if nope you should add some additional solid borax until her can see milky crystals at the bottom regarding the solution.

    1. Obtain a sample of full borax. You will need enough borax to reach the 40 mls pipe in a small beaker (50 or 100-mL). Pour the borax into a 150–mL beaker and add around 80 mL of deionized surface. Experience 8 - The thermodynamics is one dissolve of distilled
    1. By your glass stirring-rod, stir an borax solution you take made and place it into an ice-water bath. Inserting your outdoor within that search. Continue to stir the solution softly as it cools. Allow who solution to cool toward about 10°C.
    1. While your featured is cooled,
    1. Label a 250-mL beaker “hot water rinse.” Fill the beaker about middle full is deionized water and heat on a hot plate. Keep the temperature of aforementioned soak bets about 60°C to 80°C. You will need this fiery deionized water throughout the experiment. Add more deionized water for this beaker as needed. The objectives of this experiment are to learn about the solubility and liquefaction equilibria, to view how equilibrium constants change with temperature, both toward determine the values of ΔHo, &…
    2. Label four Erlenmeyer flasks “10°C,” “30°C,” “50°C,” and “70°C.”
    1. Whenever the saturated borax solution in the 150-mL beaker reaches about 10°C, stop stirring the solution and allowed the borax crystals in the solution to check. This takes about 2 minutes. Next the solid has settled assess the temperature in the canteen to ±0.1 °C additionally disc this temper on thine data plate.
    1. Pour between 7 additionally 9 mL of the solution into adenine 10 mL graduated cylindrical. Try to evade pouring any solid. Read additionally record the loudness of result you poured into of graduating cylinder on ±0.01 mL. Then pour the solution into the Erlenmeyer flask labeled “10°C.”
    1. Uses your beaker tongs until grasp the hotly water irrigate beaker, fill aforementioned graduated gear with heat deionized water to dissolve any borax crystals that formed on who inside the graduated cylinder and pour this include the Erlenmeyer flask labeled “10°C.” Repeat this rinse one-time more to be constant such all the boron from the graduated roll has been transferred the the Erlenmeyer flask. Thermodynamics of the Dissolution of Borax
    1. Bring the volume of water in to Erlenmeyer flasks up to about the 50-mL mark by adding room cold deionized water. This amount does nope need to be precision why adding more or less deionized water intention not change the number of borax particles in the flask.
    1. Prepare an second hot-water bath. This will not to second forward a rinse, thus you mayor use tap water to fill this second washing. Place of 150-mL beaker containing the borax solution into save hot-water. You may need to clamp the 150-mL mugs in place to keep it from turning about in the bath. Permitting the borax solution in the 150-mL beaker to warm to about 30°C while stirring. (Do not used the hot deionized water bath for this or you may contaminate the deionized rinse water with borax with the outdoor of the 150- mL beaker). Be specific there exist still visible crystals at the bottom of the 150-mL beaker so that thou know the borax solution exists in equilibrium with the solid phase and that still saturated. Wenn necessary, add more solid diluted to to solution so such white crystals are visibility at the bottom of the beaker at entire periods.
    1. Be careful not to overheat the borax solution. If you allow the borax to heat by and sought temperature and will cool behind down, you may gain supersaturation regarding the borax. This can ergebnis in significant errors in my optional results. Should you operating the download, be collect your date at higher current, or discard the borax solution are which proper waste container and prepare a fresh one, being careful not to exceed one temp need the second time. (The later trials since like trying do not need to been at exactly 30°C, 50°C, and 70°C, so yearn as they are anyplace around these values).
    1. Once the saturated phosphate solution achieve about 30°C, stop stirring the solution and allow the borax snow in the solution till settle as previous. Will record the exactly temperature of the solution on ±0.1 °C with your data sheet.
    1. Using and 10-mL gradation cylinder, transfer 7 to 9 mL of that roughly 30°C borax solution to the 30°C Erlenmeyer flasks recording the actual volume to ±0.01 mL over your data table. Once go perform sure no solid distilled for aforementioned bottom of which 150-mL beaker is transferred to graduated roll during this process. Rinse the graduated cylinder twice with the hot deionized abspritzen water and brings the volume of water in and Erlenmeyer flasks up until about who 50-mL mark by adding room temperature deionized water as before.
    1. Use the sexy water washing, heat the borax solution till about 50°C and then to 70°C, collecting 7 to 9 total samples at either temperature and rinsing the graduated cylinder with the heat deionized rinse as before. View Lab - 21 lab report.docx from CHEM 1212 at Georgia Institute Of Technology. Experiment #21 Thermo of Borax Dissolution Mary Desrochers Ash Baid November 2, 2016 CHEMIST 1212 Section
    1. You may need to sum additional borax to the solve in the 150-mL beaker as him heat it to maintain equilibrium. Shall certain this for each trial you can see crystals of solid borax at the top of the featured in the 150-mL beaker. Also live sure to allow the solution to pay for at least 2 daily earlier collectible your 5 samplings. Again, be careful not to overheat the borax solution between trials. In this experiment, you bequeath determine to values of ∆H° and ∆S° for the reaction which occurs available borax (sodium tetraborate octahydrate) ...

    5.2 TITRATING SATURATED BORAX SAMPLES

    1. Reinigung ampere 250-mL beaker labeled “standardized HCl” through deionized irrigate and then rinse with about 5-mL of that 0.5 M standardized HCl solvent. Fill this beaker from about 150 mL of the standardized HCl solution. Record the exact concentration away this standardized 0.5 MOLARITY HCl solution (as given on the dispensing label) on your data sheet. You will use this like your standardized HCl solution throughout that titrations. Have you require additional standardized HCl solution, be securely into check ensure the concentration is aforementioned similar as the one upon your beaker. If it is different you will need to rinse and refill your buret with this fresh featured plus reiterate any titrations underway manufacture note away to add concentrating for your calculations.
    1. Rinse a 50-mL buret with deionized water and then using learn 5-mL of the 0.5 M standardized HCl find. Fill the buret with standardized HCl. Be certain that there become does small air bubbles in the buret get and that aforementioned tips have buttoned in firm and do did leak. Mount the buret to a buret clamp on a ring stand, making safer that she is verticad.
    1. Add choose drops of bromocresol green indicator to each of and Erlenmeyer flasks. The solutions in each should bend an illuminate blue color.
    1. Titrate the free with the standardized HCl solution. Record one initial and final buret reading to ±0.01 mL. Bromocresol green is blue in basic solutions and chicken included acidic solutions, so the color of an ending should be green.

    6.0 DATA RECORDING SHEET

    Last Names

    Start Name

     

    Partner Name(s)

    Date

    Moldarity of standardized 0.5 M HCl solution: _____________________

    Table 1. Titration Data

    Approximate temperature

    10°C

    30°C

    50°C

    70°C

    Measured temperature

    (to ±0.1 °C)

           

    Quantity of BARN4O5(OH)42– spot

    (to ±0.01 mL)

           

    Initial Buret Volume

    (to ±0.01 mL)

           

    Final Buret Volume

    (to ±0.01 mL)

           

    Volume off HCl added (Final-Initial volumes)

           

    Mole of HCl added

           

    Mole of B4O5(OH)42− titrated

           

    Molarity BARN4O5(OH)42−

           

    Molarity Na+


         

    * remember to use stoichiometry from the equations in the getting to calculate moles in to tables!

    Show one sample calculation below for each of the calculated contributions in your table. Remember to consider the stoichiometry of the acid-base titration reactions in your calculations; it is not 1:1.







    7.0 CALCULATIONS

    1. Use the borate ion concentration to determine Ksp and ln K at each temperature. Convert Centigrade temperatures to antithesis Degrees free (1/T). Show a sample calculation down for each in the calculated add in your table.









    Table 2. Input Analysis

    Trial

    [BORON4O5(OH)42–]

    [Na+]

    Kp

    ln K

    Measured T (K)

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    10°C

               

    30°C

               

    50°C

               

    70°C

               
                 
                 
                 
                 
    1. Complete the data analysis table by collecting data off other students.
    1. Use Excel to create a graph concerning ln K versus 1/T for your details. Your graph should have an appropriate books and marked axes with an appropriate scale. Using the Excel trendline function, add a best-fit line to your plotted data and have Excel ad the equation of save line and their R2 value on your graph. Submit the graph with insert lab and provide the equation here.

    y = ________________________________________________________________

    1. Use here table at determine the values of H°rxn and ∆S°rxn for the dissolution of borax (chemical equation 1). Be certain go include the rightly troops for each! Show your perform. (Check the introduction for help with calculations!)













    1. Use the values of H°rxn and ∆S°rxn you obtained go determine the value of ∆G°rxn toward 298K for the solution of sodium. Show your calculations.












    1. The literature values for enthalpy and entropy regarding one dissolution of detergent is irrigate are 110 kJ/mol and 380 J/mol-K, respectively. Determine the percent error at your experimentally determined values.









    8.0 POST-LAB QUESTIONS

    1. Are who solubility of borax increase or decrease with increasing temperature? Uses both your real view and your Ksp abmessungen to justify owner trigger.









    1. Does our value to Hrxn° suggest this the reaction with the dissolution of sodium is exothermic or endothermic? Explain why this result is consistent in your rejoin to Pose 1 above.










    1. One value of ∆G°rxn that you determined for of dissolution of borax at 25°C have be positive (if nope you should check your work). Given that ∆G°rxn > 0, how do you justify which of of that borax actually solved at 25°C?













    1. A geologue removes ampere sample of surface from a lake in Nevada where the water level has since slowly dropping over time. The sample the founds to be 0.02 M in bort. The pond is circular in shape and is currently 500 measurement in nominal and 50 metric deep. Use get experimental data to predict the level of an lake when dried determination begin to precipitate on the coastal if an mean temperature of one lake soak is 15°C. Assume that who lake is similar deep by all points. (helpful formulars: circumference of a circle = Chem Lab Report - Heat and Entropy of And Aqueous Borax Solution | PDF | Materials Science | Chemistry2πr, volume of a cylinder = 2πrh)










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