Kinetic Factor Lab Report

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Kinetic Factors Shelby Sarna Turki Alkhaldi September 1, 2015 CHEM-2130-003 TA: Donald MᶜCormick Objective: The objective of the experiment is to determine what factors cause a change in speed of a reaction. It is also to decide if the change is correlated with the balanced equation of the reaction and, therefore, predictable. To obtain a reaction, permanganate, MnO_4^(1-), must be reduced by oxalic acid, C_2 O_4 H_2. The balanced equation for the reaction is: 2 MnO_4^(1-) (aq)+5 C_2 O_4 H_2 (aq)+6 H^+ (aq)→2Mn^(2+) (aq)+10 CO_2 (aq)+8 H_2 O(l) Results: The experiments required the starting, ending, and total times of each run number. To keep the units for time similar, seconds were used. An example of how to convert minutes to …show more content…

1A and 2A were still dark purple and light purple (respectively) at the beginning of the experiment and 10 minutes after. 3A had a translucent top and a dark purple bottom. There was a clear distinction of color in run 3A, much like combining water with oil. Since the tubes were rinsed multiple times with distilled water, dirty test tubes were not the problem. The cause of this reaction, or there lack of, may have been the test tubes not being mixed very well for runs 2A and 3A. However, 1A should have no reaction because 0 drops of "C" _"2" "O" _"4" "H" _"2" were added. So, "C" _"2" "O" _"4" "H" _"2" could not reduce Mn"O" _"4" ^"1-" in the KMn"O" _"4" …show more content…

Exercise IV “Effect of Copper Metal” demonstrates how increasing the amount of copper increases the rate. Run 3D had the fastest speed of reaction at 74 seconds from start to finish when 4 inches of copper wire was added to the solution. Run 2D was next with 75 seconds containing a 2 inch copper wire, and then 1D was last with no copper wire and finishing at 137 seconds. High temperatures act like a catalyst and speed up chemical reactions; therefore, in exercise V “Effect of Temperature,” run 1E had a faster speed of reaction than run 2E. This difference in speed was because the temperature of run 1E was 3 degrees (Celsius) higher than run 2E. Run 1E lasted 42 seconds while run 2E lasted 208 seconds. Heat acted like a catalyst in this experiment by speeding up the particles which allowed the particles to hit more

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