ECHEML CHEMISTRY FOR ENGINEERS - LABORATORY

NAME: _Julie Anne dela Cruz__ DATE: ___10/10/21__

COURSE, YEAR & SECTION: BSCpE I-7 INSTRUCTOR: Karla Jane Puracan
EXPERIMENT 1

COMMON LABORATORY OPERATIONS

I. OBJECTIVES 1. To become acquainted with some common laboratory operations 2. To

demonstrate proper laboratory techniques and skills involved in some common laboratory
operations.

II. APPARATUS beakers, graduated cylinder, empty containers, stirring rod, tablespoon, funnel,
Erlenmeyer flask, evaporating dish, Bunsen burner, tripod stand, wire gauze

III. MATERIALS filter paper, tap water, sand, salt

IV. PROCEDURE

1. MEASURING AND ESTIMATING LIQUID VOLUMES

Watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCf5fxZIjus and answer the following:

Questions

a. Using the beaker, what is the volume of the water? 35mL is the volume of water using the
beaker
b. Using the graduated cylinder, what is the volume of the water? 34.9mL is the volume of the
water using the graduated cylinder
c. Which gives a more precise measurement, a beaker, or a graduated cylinder? A graduated
cylinder gives a more precise measurement than the beaker.
NOTE: When reading the volume of clear liquids keep your eye on the level of the lower
meniscus (see Fig. 1).

Figure 1
2. TRANSFERRING LIQUIDS

You may perform this at home.

Take two glasses/cups or any containers. Fill one with about ¾ full of water. Take it in one hand
and a tablespoon in the other hand. Hold the tablespoon against the lip of the container with
water and put the free end of the spoon into the empty container. Carefully pour the water down
the spoon into the empty container (see Fig. 2).

Figure 2 Transferring liquid from one container to another

Watch this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJWz62tA93k&list=RDHJWz62tA93k&start_radio=1 and
answer the following:

Questions
a. Why should one use a tablespoon (or stirring rod) in transferring liquids from one container
to another? One should use a stirring rod when transferring liquids from one container to
another so that it will not splash on you or your lab partners just to ensure safety.
b. In mixing acids and water, the acid should be added to water, not the other way around.

3. METHODS OF PHYSICAL SEPARATION OF MIXTURES

First Method

Watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRouxgf40AU and answer the following:

Fill in the blanks.

a. The solids mixed are sand and salt.
b. After water is added to the mixture and stirred, salt dissolved in water.
c. When the solid-liquid mixture is poured into the flask through a funnel with filter paper,
_sand remained on the filter paper.
d. The liquid which passed through the funnel with filter paper contains water_ and _salt__.
e. This liquid is generally called _filtrate__.
f. This method of separation is called filtration.

Figure 4 . How to fold a filter paper

Figure 5 Proper filtration techniques

 Figure 6 Filtration using Erlenmeyer flask

Second Method

Watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhX_mk9TJeU and answer the following:

Fill in the blanks.
a. Another method of separating solid-liquid mixtures is decantation_.
b. The liquid which is poured off from the mixture is generally called immiscible_.
c. Between the first and second methods, which is more effective? Filtration is way more
effective in separating solid from liquid mixture compared to decantation .

Third Method
Refer to the First Method video and answer the following:
Fill in the blanks.
a. The filtrate from the first method was placed on an evaporating dish and heated until all of
the solvent evaporated.
b. This method of separation is called evaporation .
c. The solid resulting from this method is called a substance that is dissolved in solution or a
solute.
d. The common name of the solid that remained on the evaporating dish is __solute_.
e. The chemical name of the solid that remained on the evaporating dish is __solute_.