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Law of Conservation of Mass

100 g Coal is completely 100 g

burned
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What do you observe?
Write down your observations.
 Law of Conservation of Mass
Lavoisier (1743-1794)

100 g Coal is completely 100 g

burned
A: Mass of the jar & its
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contents remains
same. Mass is conserved.

In a chemical reaction, matter is neither

created nor destroyed, it is
transformed into something else.
 Since matter can not be created or
destroyed, chemical reactions must be
__________
balanced in terms of _________.
mass

 The amount of mass you start with must

equal to the mass of the products:

Mass of Reactants  Mass of Products

100g total = 100g total
According to the law of conservation of
mass, how much zinc was present in the zinc
carbonate?

+ = +

256g 256g
REMEMBER !!!
A 40 g B 88 g C 104 g D 256 g
The mass on both sides of the arrow must be equal.
ANSWER: 256- 152 = 104g of Zn
 10/17/17
WARM UP
Quick Write:
• In your IAN Notebook, WRITE the Law of
Conservation of Mass in your own words.
According to the law of conservation of mass, how
much carbon dioxide was present in the copper
(II) carbonate?
CuCO3(s)  CuO(s) + CO2(g)
123.6 g 79.6 g + 44.0
?g g
123.6g 123.6g
What are the reactants? CuCO3
What is the mass of reactants? 123.6 g
What are the products? CuO & CO2Mass
?
What is the mass of products? 79.6 g + CO2

Answer: 123.6 – 79.6 = 44.0g of CO2

 For the Previous Two Examples
• You can set every Chemical Equation up like an
Algebraic Equation and solve it for the variable.
For instance this equation,
CuCO3(s)  CuO(s) + CO2(g)
can be written algebraically using the masses given
on the previous slide like below. Now you only have
to solve for x!

123.6 [g] = 79.6 [g] + x

Show the algebraic equation for your solutions to the
previous 2 problems in your notes.
 Practice #1
Solve the follow problem in your IAN Notebook.

1. If 50 grams of sodium (Na) react with chlorine (Cl2) to

form 125 grams of salt (NaCl), how many grams of
chlorine reacted?

2Na + Cl2  2NaCl

 Practice #2
Solve the follow problem in your IAN Notebook.

2. From a laboratory process, a student collects 28.0 g of

hydrogen (H2) and 224.0 g of oxygen (O2). How much
water was originally involved in the process?

H2O  H2 + O2