Chemical Properties Essay

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Every chemical element or compound have specific properties that make them different than the other. However, these properties help us to understand every element or compound in which they can be used and how we can deal with them. These properties can be chemical properties which are defined as "that property must lead to a change in the substances ' chemical structure", such as heat of combustion and flammability ("Physical and Chemical…"). Also, these properties can be physical properties which are defined as the properties "that can be measured or observed without changing the chemical nature of the substance", such as mass, volume, boiling and freezing points ("Physical and Chemical…"). These two properties are related to each other. For …show more content…

Then, placing the thermocouple in the test tube to monitor the temperature by the labQuest. After a couple of readings of the solution in the hot bath, the test tube with the thermocouple inside it, should be transferred to the ice bath to monitor the temperature for a fixed length of time while the reading still running. This method should have been performed for all the trails with no additives for the trail …show more content…

I was able to consider the data for the all the trails except the first one. The first trail cannot be considered because the readings conducted differently. So, the freezing point of the first trail was not determined in this experiment. I had to find the freezing point from out side references so I can compare it to the other readings in the other trails. The freezing point for the tert-Butanol is below 25o C ("Tert-Butanol."). As we can see in the table above the freezing point was decreasing as we go down. In this experiment, I was able to change some chemical properties that led to a change of the physical properties of the tert-Butanol. As the additives had been added to the solvent, the chemical construction of the molecules (intermolecular) of the solvent and the solute was changed. This new construction of the molecules will require different energy to boil or freeze the solution. However, the solution gained new properties from the solvent, which caused the freezing point to decrease. In the second trail, I added a smaller amount of the Benzoic acid to the tert-Butanol than trail 3. Smaller mass of Benzoic acid caused smaller difference in the freezing point. In the last trail, I added the Camphor to tert-Butanol which caused the biggest different to freezing. The Camphor had the major effect on the freezing point of the

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