Chemistry 120 Lab

Formal Laboratory Report Format

Lab Reports
Typewritten reports documenting your experimental results. Be sure to clearly label each section! Use complete sentences. Double space your report. Attach your data pages at the end of the report.

Title Page Objective Introduction Procedure Results and Calculations Discussion Conclusion Questions Data Pages

Gas Constant and Molar Volume Experiment

Title Page
This will identify the experiment, you, the course, your class, your instructor, and the date(s) the experiment was performed. Very important so I can keep track of what you are handing in! Be sure to include the grading rubric.
Grading Rubric Lab Grade from Data Sheet Formal Report Title Page Objective Introduction Procedure Results and Calculations Discussion Conclusion Total /100 /50 /2 /5 /15 /3 /5 /15 /5 /150

Exploring Gases:
The Determination of the Ideal Gas Constant, Molar Volume and Percent Potassium Chlorate in a Mixture Jane Smith Lab Partner: (if appropriate) Chemistry 120 Section 5399 Instructor: D. Vance September 3, 2007 completed September 17, 2007 turned in

Objective
Why are you doing this experiment? Objective: To experimentally find the ideal gas law constant, R, calculate the percent error in the experimental ideal gas law constant, the molar volume, its percent error, and the percentage

Introduction
This section tells a little Introduction: bit about the theory of the In this experiment experiment and how it will experimental values for the be done. ideal gas law constant, R, Be sure to label your and the molar volume of a reactions (i.e. rxn 1) gas, Vm, will be found. and your Oxygen gas will be formed formulas/equations ( i.e. by the decomposition of eq 1) so that it is easier potassium chlorate: to refer to them in the MnO text. 2 KClO3 (s) 3 O2 (g) + 2 KCl (s) rxn 1
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The oxygen gas will be

Procedure
Reference the procedure used and note any deviations from the published procedure. Safety and Waste treatment should be noted here too. Procedure Followed procedure from handout
Dirbas, J., Holleran, J., Willard, C. (2010). Experiment 12: Chemistry 120: Measurement of the Gas Constant and the Molar Volume of Oxygen. In Chemistry 120 Laboratory Manual (pp. 12-177 to 12-188). Grossmont College, El Cajon, California.

In this experiment there were not any deviations from the laboratory manual procedure.

Results and Calculations

Tabulate data (you may Results and Calculations copy and paste the Table 1: Major Data for Decomposition of KClO3 spreadsheet) and any Experimental Literature Value Percentage Value Error calculated values. Ideal Gas Constant, 0.0821 R (L atm mol K ) Be sure to show Molar Volume, V 22.4 (L mol ) sample calculations. Percentage KClO 99% n/a (These may be hand written.) Sample Calculation For non-numerical labs, m oxygen = 25.789 g 23.647 g = 2.142 g summarize the data Etc generated.
-1 -1 m -1 3

Discussion
This is where you get to explain your results and talk about any errors that may have occurred. Discussion: The value of the ideal gas law constant was found be to 61.2 L torr mol-1 K-1, that is a percent error of 1.9%. This value is very close to the actual value of 62.4 L torr mol-1 K-1. One possible source of error could be that the volume of water in the florence flask and the beaker was not equalized before the

Conclusion
This is where you Conclusion give the final result. The ideal gas law This is essentially the constant was found to punch line-be 61.2 L torr mol-1 K-1 with a percent error of 1.9%, the molar volume was found to be 25.3 L mol-1 with a percent error of 12.8%, and the percent

Questions
Answer any questions posed in the lab here. There are not any in this lab. Just attach the data pages with pre- and post-laboratory questions and data.