^^ Here is my lab up above! ^^
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In this lab we weighed and heated different hydrates to figure out how much water was lost. As you can see down below this was our set up for both hydrates that we used.
Here is us weighing the crucible and lid by its self because we needed to know how much we had to subtract from the number we received after heating.
This is how we measured the hydrates. (Hydrate A below)
The hydrate was then put into the crucible and heated for the first time. It was heating for 5 minutes until wee took it off to cool down for 10 minutes. After it was done cooling down we measured it and then stuck it back to be heated for a final time. We did this twice to make sure that all the possible water was out.
Hydrate C did not have much of an ‘explosion’ though it did change from blue to white and they all stuck together after the first heating. Here is what Hydrate C looked like after the first heating:
For Hydrate A, it had more of an ‘explosion’ while heating as the contents flung to the sides of the walls of the crucible. Here is what Hydrate A looked like after the second heating:
As you can tell the overall mass of before and after did change though not by a drastic amount which makes sense because water was the only thing that was diminished. (Hydrate A below)
That was our Hydrate Lab. We collected all of our data and then cleaned up our station!