Baby Food Jar Lab

Blog Post #3

(December 15, 2015)

Recently in class, we conducted a lab where we had to calculate theoretical yields. We were given a nail, (Fe) and Copper (II) Chloride (CuCl2) and had to calculate if our final mass was more of Fe(II) or Fe(III). 

 Day One: All we did was take the measure of the baby food jar, the nail, the copper (II) chloride and recorded it on a data table. 

Day Two: We came into school the next day and saw that we had produced copper! We extracted our nail and had to go through many different processes of siphoning off liquids multiple times. We then measured the mass of the nail that was used and recorded it.

Day three: After the weekend all we had to do was calculate the actual mass of copper that we had produced and see which Iron it was closer too. 

The nail after decomposing

Our copper in the solution