CHM01 Lab: Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory

Module (Week 9)

Title: Factors Affecting Rate of Chemical Reactions

Evaluation:

Part I. Instructions: Record your observations from the experiments 1 and 2.

Experiment Before After one minute

Cup A Cup B Cup A Cup B

As I poured the As I poured one The granulated The sugar cube

granulated sugar into the sugar cube into the sugar in Cup A in cup B didn’t
solvent, I observed that solvent, It dissolves completely completely
1 every individual granules very gradual; it dissolved after dissolve, after
being in contact or might due to its being stirred for being stirred with
expose with water chunky and thicker one minute. the given time.
immediately dissolves, it texture, and while
might due to its fine stirring it, I have
crystallize texture. deduce that one
minute was not
enough to
completely dissolve
it.

ROOM HOT WATER ROOM HOT WATER

TEMPERATURE TEMPERATURE

2 Although the solute
dissolves faster due to its
texture, however, since
stirring is not needed and
a room temperature
solvent is used in this
experiment, I observed
that the granules are
dissolving a bit slower.
The solute in a hot After being sit After being sit for
water is dissolving for one minute, one minute, the
more quickly than it there are more solute in the Cup
is with the Cup A, granulated B has almost
though there is no sugar that has completely
assurance that it will been left in Cup dissolved.
entirely dissolve A.
within the given
time.
 Part II. Instructions: Answer the following questions briefly.

1. Did you spot differences between Cup A and Cup B in Experiment No. 1? If yes, cite a
reason for this.

Yes, and what I have noticed is that a granulated sugar dissolves quickly than a sugar cube
and probably it has to do with the surface area, since granulated sugar significantly have
greater surface area in contact with the solvent which allows it to dissolve faster, while sugar
cube have grains tightly compacted together and only the granules outside are directly
exposed with the solvent, which resulted it to dissolve more slowly. It seems to appear that
the finer the solute is, the faster it will dissolves to the solvent.

2. Did you spot differences between Cup A and Cup B in Experiment No. 2? If yes, cite a
reason for this.

Yes. As I poured the granulated sugar in the cup A with room temperature, and cup B with
hot temperature solvent, I have noticed that the sugar dissolves faster in the cup of hot
water, than sugar being poured to a room temperature solvent, and it is probably due to the
temperature. Since hot water has higher temperature, the water molecules moves faster and
are more energetic, as a result, more collisions are taking place between the solute and
solvent. It seems to appear that, the higher the temperature is, the faster the solute will
dissolve.

Part III. Attach here your photos with the set-ups while doing the experiments.

EXPERIMENT 1 EXPERIMENT 2
(GRANULATED SUGAR AND SUGAR CUBE) (GRANULATED SUGAR)

BEFORE AFTER ONE BEFORE AFTER

MINUTE ONE MINUTE
ROOM HOT
TEMPERATURE WATER