Rodney Pujada

Chemistry 101/ Section 4075

Prof: H. Lee
Days of class: Tuesday and Thursday
Time of class: 6.00 – 9:10 pm
Lab Due Date: Sep 21th,2010
Experiment No 3
Quantitative Separation of Mixtures
Name: Rodney Pujada

Lab Partner: Armin Vossooghi

I. Introduction

This experiment shows the separation of the components of a mixture. We

separate a mixture of a water soluble (salt) component and water insoluble
(sand) component. Mixture has an insoluble material from one which is
soluble.

Homogeneous mixture exhibits uniformity in appearance and properties

throughout the mixture. The prefix 'homo' means same and indicates that the
two substances combined together blend well to form one uniform mixture, in
which individual particles cannot be distinguished.

II. Material

Beakers, evaporating dish, stirring rod, funnel, funnel holder, filter paper,
watch glass, tong, and balance.

III. Procedure

1. Take sample No 16 bottle from the cart.

2. Measure the mass of the sample bottle using a top loading balance,
mb+s.
3. Transfer it into a 400 mL beaker, then measure the sample bottle again,
mb. The difference in these two measurements gives the mass of mixture in
the 400 mL, ms, = mb+s + mb

4. Add 100 mL distilled water, then stir the mixture for 5 minutes to dissolve.
 5. Weight the filter paper. (mfilter)

6. Fold the weighed filter paper, then place it in the funnel and wet it with
water using wash bottle to attached to the funnel.

7. Pour your mixture from 100 mL into the funnel for separation of liquid from
solid. Keep liquid level in the funnel about 1 cm below the edge of the filter
paper.

8. Wash solids in the beaker with water to transfer the solid to the funnel.

9. Wash the solid in the filter paper by gently squirting some distilled water
over it from a wash bottle many times.

10. Remove the filter paper front the funnel, fold it, then place it on a watch
glass.

11. Take the watch glass, containing filtered solid, in the preheated oven for
at least 30 minutes or until dry.

12. Cool the filter paper out of the oven. Wait until it cools down,

13. Weigh paper with solid and record it. ( ms = mfilter +samble - mfilter)

IV. Data and Calculation

Sand/Salt No
16
Unknown sample number Mass (g)
First Second
Run Run
20.28
21.433
Mbottle +sample 0
16.43
20.280
Mbotle 3
Mass of the unknown sample
1.153 3.848
( ms = mbottle+samble - mbottle)

Mass of the filter paper 2.556 2.553

Mass of the dried filter paper and solid 3.156 4.761

Mass of the solid

0.600 2.208
( ms = mfilter +samble - mfilter)
57.38
% solid in the mixture 52.04% %
IV.1 Calculate the mass of the unknown sample

Data:

First Run:

Mass of the bottle and sample No 16 = mb+s = 21.433 g.

Mass of the bottle = 20.280 g

Mass of the sample = mbottle+samble – mbottle = 21.433-20.280 = 1.153

g

Mass of the sample = 1.153 g

IV.2 Calculate the mass of the solid

Data:

First Run:

Mass of the filter paper (mfilter) = 3.156 g

Mass of the dried filter paper and solid ( mfilter +samble)= 2.556 g
Mass of the solid ( ms = mfilter +samble - mfilter) = 3.156 – 2.556 = 0.6 g

Mass of the solid = 0.6

g

IV.3 Calculate the percent of solid in the mixture

Data:

Mass of the sample = 1.153 g

Mass of the solid = 0.6 g

 Percent of mass = . Msolid x 100%:

Msample

Percent of mass = .( 0.6 )x 100% = 52.04 %

1.153

Percent of mass = 52
%

V. Conclusions:

• A homogeneous mixture is a uniform mixture that have properties

throughout the given samples, and it can separate by filtration or physical
procedures.

• In our laboratory, we separate salt (NaCl) from sand by dissolving the salt
in water because salt is soluble in water. We can separate salt from sand
because salt is dissolved in water.

• The mixture contains 52 % of NaCl and 48% of sand in the sample. It

shows there is 52 g of NaCl per 100 g of mixture or 48 % of san per 100 g
of mixture.
 Experiment 3

Quantitative Separation of Mixtures

This experiment performs the quantitative separation of the

components of a mixture. A mixture is the mixing of two or more substances
together. The proportions of the components in the mixture can be varied.
And the resulting mixture can be either homogeneous or heterogeneous,
depending on the properties of components such as solubility.

In this experiment, you are going to separate a water-soluble

component from water-insoluble components. The heterogeneous mixture is
placed in water, whpre the water-soluble components dissolve. Separating
water-soluble and water-insoluble components is achieved by filtration. The
separated solid is dried and weighed to obtain the mass and percent
composition by mass. The water-soluble component, in a homogeneous
aqueous solution, can be recovered by evaporating the water, then
measuring the mass of the residue.

EQUIPMENT

Beakers, evaporating dish, stirring rod, funnel, funnel holder, filter paper,
watch glass, tong, and balance.

PROCEDURE

1. Take an unknown sample bottle from the cart and record the sample
number in your lab report.

2. Measure the mass of the sample bottle using a top loading balance,
mb+s.
3. Transfer the sample into a 400 mL beaker, then measure the sample bottle
again, mb,. The difference in these two measurements gives the mass of
mixture in the 400 mL, ms, = mb+s + mb
4. Add about 150 mL of distilled or tap water, then stir the mixture for 5
minutes to make sure that all soluble components dissolve.

5. Measure the mass of a filter using the same balance.

6. Fold the weighed filter paper (your instructor will show you how), then
place it in the funnel and wet it with water (using the wash bottle) to make
sure the filter paper is firmly attached to the funnel.
7. Pour your mixture from 400 mL into the funnel for separation of liquid froth
solid. Keep liquid level in the funnel about 1 cm below the edge of the filter
paper.

8. Wash solids in the beaker with water from the wash bottle to make sure all
solid residues are transferred to the filter paper.

9. Wash the solid in the filter paper by gently squirting some distilled water
over it from a wash bottle. Repeat this washing several times.

10. Remove the filter paper front the funnel, fold it, then place it on a watch
glass.

11. Put the watch glass, containing filtered solid, in the preheated oven for at
least 30 minutes or until dry.

12. Take the watch glass and filter paper out of the oven. Wait until it cools
down, then measure the mass of the filter paper with solid in it.

RESU LTS

Run #1 Run #2

1. Unknown sample number __________________________

2. Mass of the unknown sample

S. Mass of the filter paper

4. Mass of the dried filter paper and solid

5. % solid in the mixture

CALCULATIONS

Perform your calculations on the right hand side of your notebook.

CONCLUSIONS