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Name: Salceda, Cherry Joy C.

Course-Year_Block #: BSED Science -1_ Block 033
Subject: Inorganic Chemistry (Lab)
Instructor: Ma’am Aileen Grace Matuguina

Exercise No. 3

(Sublimation)
I. OBJECTIVE(S)
• Understand the process of sublimation.
• Show how sublimation works.
• Explain how temperature affects the sublimation process.

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 II. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

•In this experiment, we are tasked to prepare napthalene balls,

beaker, alcohol lamp, funnel, mortar and pestle, tripod and gauze.

The napthalene balls was crashed by the use of mortar and pestle.

Then the alcohol lamp and tripod was set up with the gauze over it.

After that, the crashed napthalene balls was putted inside the beaker

and placed in the tripod. After 20 or 30 minutes, students observed

that the crashed napthalene balls inside the beaker turns into

crystals. Sublimation tends to produce good crystals because the

solid can grow slowly. Naphthalene sublimes easily because it is

made up of non-polar molecules that are held together only by weak

Van der Waal intermolecular forces of attraction.

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III. CONCLUSION

•Sublimation is a process in which a solid transforms into a gas

phase without first melting to form a liquid phase. Sublimation occurs

when atmospheric pressure is too low for a substance to exist in

liquid form. Naphthalene undergoes sublimation because

naphthalene is highly volatile in nature and there is weak force of

attraction between its molecules.

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IV. Answers to Guide Questions

1. Based on the experiment, explain the process of sublimation.

•Based on the experiment students can say that, through

heating the crashed mothballs it transform into a gas phase and

did not pass through the liquid phase.

2. What if you don’t crash the mothballs, will the mothball sublime

as well? What do you think the reason behind crashing the

mothballs? Explain.

•If the students will not crash the mothballs , it will still sublime,

but it will take a long period of time to sublime. I think the

reason of crashing the mothballs is to easily see what will

happen to it in the sublimation process.

3. How temperature differences affect the acceleration of the

sublimation process?

•When thermal energy is added to a substance, its temperature

increases, which can change its state from solid to liquid

(melting), liquid to gas (vaporization), or solid to gas

(sublimation).

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 4. Does the amount of crashed mothballs before the reaction

(before it sublimates) is same after the reaction (after it

sublimates) ? What Law explains your answers? Testify it.

•No, amount of mothballs after the reaction will not be same

before the reaction.

5. Except for the mothballs, cite 2 example of compound that also

follows the process of sublimation.

•Two compound that also follows the process of sublimation

are, iodine and dry ice.

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 V. Documentation:

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