Lee1 Harrison Lee 1/27/13 Period 11 Malisa Ray Mole Relationship in a Chemical Reaction

Objectives: React a known mass of NaHCO3 with excess HCl; Calculate the mole relationship between NaHCO3 and the solid product, NaCl; Predict a balanced equation for the reaction; and, Determine whether your results support the law of conservation of mass-energy.

Analysis: 1. Masses (in grams)Empty evaporating dish Evaporating dish + NaHCO3 Mass of NaHCO3 Mass of evaporating dish + NaCl Mass of NaCl 94.11g 97.07g 3.04g 96.07g 3.04g

2. Calculate the number of moles of NaHCO3 used in this reaction.

3. Calculate the number of moles of NaCl produced.

Conclusions: 1. One of the products in this reaction was NaCl, the other two products were gases. One of these gases causes limewater to turn cloudy. Write the balanced equation for the reaction in this experiment.

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2. From your balanced equation, what is the mole ratio between the NaHCO3 and NaCl? How does it compare with the mole ratio from your experiment? The mole ratio between NaHCO3 and NaCl is 1:1. This ratio is exactly the same with what I found in the experimentthe mass of NaCl and NaHCO3 were the same.

3. Suppose you had started with 3.25 moles of sodium hydrogen carbonate, how many moles of sodium chloride would you expect to be formed? If you started with X moles of NaHCO3 how many moles of NaCl would you expect to be formed? Explain. If I started out with 3.25 moles of NaHCO3, there would be 3.25 moles of NaCl formed. This means that if I had X moles of NaHCO3, there would be X moles of NaCl produced because of the law of conservation of mass.

4. Do the results of your experiment support the law of conservation of mass energy? Explain. Yes, because in the chemical reaction, although the substances involved were undergoing dramatic chemical changes, they were not losing mass and the energy involved in the reaction was not destroyed.