Before the experiment began I had to read the laboratory manual, while I read it what grabbed my attention was stated in the lab manual water boils at 100 degrees Celsius. Just as I continued to read the manual as an assignment, I was going to “investigate the relationship between the concentration of solutes in water and the temperature at which the water boils” for the class the next day. At this point, my curiosity began the experiment. I started to think how long it took for the water to boil? A question arose, by adding sodium chloride to the water will the temperature change for the water to boil? If it took 100 degrees Celsius to boil pure water. Then by adding sodium chloride to the water, it would take greater heat to boiling the water. For this reason, the temperature would increase to reach the boiling point. My prediction was that the temperature of the water would be greater as sodium chloride added to the water. The more sodium chloride added, the more the temperate will increase. Next, I began the process of the experiment in class. …show more content…
Next, I had to test the different amount of sodium chloride in the water as I took four 250 ml beakers and labeled them A, B, C and D. Then added 100 ml solution containing 0, 1, 3, and 5, M sodium chloride in the each beaker. After I had set up the tripod and non-asbestos pad over a bunsen burner, I placed the solution from the beakers to the cylinder on the tripod and began to boil each solution one at a time and record the temperatures with the thermometer. The data that I collected is in the chart