Laboratory questions

1. The collected water sample isn't filtered. Will this oversight result in the TDS (total dissolved

solids) value being reported too high or too low? Explain.

ANS:

High since TDS consists of inorganic or organic in molecular or ionized form

2. The evaporating dish wasn't properly cleaned of a volatile material before its mass was

determined. When the sample is heated to dryness the volatile material is removed. As a result

of this technique error, will the reported TDS be too high, too low, or unaffected? Explain.

ANS:

TDS content would increase, since the sample is heated to dryness, leads to a technical error

3. The sample in the evaporating dish isn't heated to total dryness. How will this error in

technique affect the reported value for TDS -- too high, too low, or unaffected? Explain. TSS

(total suspended solids) -- too high, too low, or unaffected? Explain.

ANS:

Since dish isn't heated to total dryness, TSS would be more since TSS particles cannot pass

through a sieve of two micrometers and yet are indefinitely suspended in solution.

The reported TDS will be too low in this case as the mass of the spattered sample was not

returned and the weight of the sample is then affected. TDS wouldn’t be much
4. As the sample cools, moisture from the atmosphere condenses on the outside of the

evaporating dish before the mass is measured. Will the presence of the condensed moisture

increase or decrease the reported TDS in the water sample? Explain.

ANS:

TDS would be less since due to the condensation of surrounding water vapor leads to increase

in total volume but the tds content would be same, so the reported tds content per volume

would be less

5. The sample in the evaporating dish isn't heated to total dryness. As a result of this technique

error, will the reported value for total solids (TS) be too high, too low, or unaffected? Explain.

ANS:

Total solids content would be high since the volume of volatile liquid decreased, but the total

solids would be same, leads to a much higher content TS in the remaining solids

6. Suppose the water sample has a relatively high percent of volatile solide material. How would

this have affected the reported mass of:

a. dissolved solids -- too high, too low, or unaffected? Explain.

b. total solids -- too high, too low, or unaffected? Explain.

c. suspended solids -- too high, too low, or unaffected? Explain.

8. When several drops of 0.010M AgNO3 are added to a test sample, a white precipitate forms.

What can you conclude to from this observation? Explain?

there is a chemical reaction/transformation

This is probably saturated with anything that forms a white preciitate with either Ag+ ions

or NO3 this is porbably AgCl (s) since it is not soluble, and very common in lab tests