Tamba, Miriam B.

2MBIO6

PROF. FRANCIS BINAS

Activity on Concentrations
Website - https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/concentration/latest/concentration_en.html

The Concentration simulation is designed to help students identify relationships between solution
components and concentration. The sim has a beaker in which students can create solutions.
Experimenting with several different chemicals in solid and concentrated solution form, students can
develop qualitative and quantitative relationships between solution components and concentrations.

Learning Goals
 Describe the relationships between volume and amount of solute to solution concentration.
 Predict qualitatively how actions such as adding solute, evaporating solvent, or draining the
solution affect the concentration and number of moles of a solution; and
 Calculate the change in the concentration of a solution when a given volume of solvent is added.

Develop your understanding: Explore the Concentration simulation.  Try to find all the ways you
can change the concentration of the solution in the beaker.

Complex Controls
• The maximum amount of solute that can be added to the beaker is 6 moles; the
shaker or dropper will not dispense any more solute. You can remove some
solute with the drain faucet or you can remove all of the solute by clicking:
• The dropper will add concentrated solution of the solute. The concentration of the
solution in the dropper can be measured by putting the probe below the dropper, then
press the red button to read in the stream. See the table below for concentrations.
• When the moles of solute per liter of water is above the saturation point, the
solution will saturate and small crystals will form at the bottom of the beaker.
The solubility limit values used in the simulation are from the CRC Handbook of
Chemistry and Physics 91st edition, online: http://www.hbcpnetbase.com
Customization Options

Explain your understanding:

1. Describe a saturated solution using evidence from the simulation.

 A saturated solution is one that can no longer dissolve any more of the solute. Based on the
simulation, I chose potassium chromate as the solute. To continue, adding solid solute to the
solution and by means of a lot of evaporation, it became a saturated solution since only the
moles of the potassium chromate remained in the beaker. 

2. Predict what will happen to the moles of solute if:

a. more water is added to the beaker

 When water is added to a beaker, the number of moles of the solvent remains constant while
the volume increases. As a result, the molarity decreases, and the solution becomes diluted.

b. water is evaporated from the beaker

 The atoms don't change their design during vanishing. It is just that they spread further apart.

c. some of the solution is drained from the beaker

 It will affect the molecules arrangement because every part of that solution is essential to the
molecules to maintain their positions. 
3. Predict what will happen to the concentration of the solution if:
a. more water is added to the beaker

 The concentration of the solution decreases as more water is added to the beaker. This is
because the number of moles of the solute does not change as the volume of the solution
increases.

b. water is evaporated from the beaker

 The concentration of solution increases even though water is evaporated from the beaker.

c. some of the solution is drained from the beaker

 Even if some of the solution is drained, the concentration of solution will stay the same because
draining doesn't affect the concentration. 

4. Does the concentration change in the same way if you used solid or liquid to add solute? Explain why
your observation makes sense using things from your everyday life like table salt.

 The concentration will change in the same way even if you used solid or liquid to add as a solute.
It will not change appreciably since even if the concentration of a solute in a binary solution
changes with the specified pure liquid, therefore its concentration remains constant and,
moreover, the molar concentration of a pure solid or liquid does not change. It affects the
concentration of the solute / electrolyte present in the solution.