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Identification of an Unknown Compound using Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis Lauren Tremaglio Chemistry 1011 Lab, Section 16 Instructor: Steven Belina October 3, 2014 Our signatures indicate that this document represents the work completed by our group this semester. Experimental Design and Discussion of Results The objective of this experiment was to identify an unknown compound through quantitative and qualitative analysis. In order to find the identity of the unknown compound, an initial qualitative test for solubility was performed. To begin, the solubility of the unknown compound in water was tested. If the compound is soluble in water, it can be inferred that it is either a polar covalent or ionic compound. …show more content…

In order to find the amount of a product made during a double displacement reaction, the product has to be separated from the solution. From this number of moles of precipitate can be calculated. From there the number of moles of reactants can be calculated using the mole ratios of the particular reaction that occurred. As seen in Table 5 it is shown that by finding out the number of moles of the unknown, the molar mass of the unknown can be calculated. From the found mass of the unknown compound, the mound of the original ion can be found. In all trials, some of the precipitate was lost through the filter. Therefor all values are most likely less than the actual values due to …show more content…

Most ionic compounds are soluble in water because waters partially dipole is attracted to anions and its partially negative dipole is attracted to cations. This can be further investigated by testing the compounds solubility in acetone. Ionic compounds are generally not soluble in acetone, while polar and nonpolar compounds are. One spatula tip of the compound was added to 50mL of acetone. Because acetone is a non-polar solvent and ionic compounds will not dissolve in it. The quantitative solubility of the unknown compound was determined to be 29/100ml. The known solubility of sodium sulfate is 28.11g/100mL water. Using the found solubility to compare to the known solubility of sodium sulfate. This solution created in the solubility test, the conductivity of the unknown compound was tested using an Ohmmeter to measure the resistance of the solution. Resistance is the measure of a substances ability to conduct