1. If you began with .5296 g of copper mesh and recovered .2937 g of elemental copper, what would be the percent recovery of the copper metal? 55.45%

2. Describe the difference in the appearance of the copper mesh vs. the appearance of the elemental copper at the end of the reaction sequence. The elemental cooper was bright and gleaming while the copper mesh was more of a dark brown. They also had two vastly different textures, the texture of the copper mesh was grainy and the elemental cooper texture was slippery and smooth. The copper mesh also had bits and pieces of copper smashed together in small clumps and the elemental copper were strands of cooper entangled as a tightly packed ball. The elemental cooper was also more neatly packed