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The materials that were used were 1 100 mL graduated cylinder, 1 Bunsen burner, 1 flint lighter, 1 weight boat, 1 rubber stopper with one hole opening, 3 30 mL test tubes, 1 30 cm rubber tubing, 1 tub, 2 retort stand, 2 utility clamp, 1 scoopula, 1 electronic balance, 1 test tube rack, 9 g of baking soda, 1 test tube brush and finally a timer. Prior to the start of the experiment, it was ensured that all materials were clean, functional and not contaminated or cracked for one’s safety and efficiency of the experiment. Furthermore, the procedure that was taken, with regards to getting the best results was 1. Wore safety glasses to avoid any splashes of chemicals, observed and recorded qualitative data of baking soda. 2. Ensured all …show more content…

Used a scoopula to take out baking soda and filled three 30 mL test tube with 0.2 g, 0.4 g, 0.6 g, 0.8 g and 1 g using an electronic balance. Put the test tubes in the rack. 4. Filled a tub with water 30 cm and filled water to the 100 mL mark on the graduated cylinder. 5. Covered the opening of the graduated cylinder with a weight boat, and quickly inverted the graduated cylinder in the tub filled with water. Then, removed the weight boat. Attached the inverted graduated cylinder with retort stand #2 and utility clamp #2 at the 50 mL marking. 6. Inserted a 30 cm rubber tubing into the opening of the graduated cylinder. 7. Sealed the first test tube of 0.2 g of baking soda with a rubber stopper and inserted the other end of the rubber tubing into the spigot placed in one hole rubber stoppers. 8. Set up retort stand #1 and attached the test tube at an angle of 45o using utility clamp #1. 9. Used a functional flint lighter and lit the Bunsen burner. Then, placed the Bunsen burner under the test tube. Made sure the valve for gas was opened in the same spot by placing a sticky note for all trials. The distance of the test tube from the top of the Bunsen burner was 1 cm controlled by using a ruler to measure the …show more content…

Repeated the steps that were required for the other amounts of baking soda. 13. Examined data, averaged out the volume from all trials, graphed the mass and average of volume in the form of a line graph. As can be seen from this chart, each measured mass of baking soda was experimented 3 times. The volume for a certain mass was then averaged by adding all three volumes and then dividing by 3 for the number of trials done. With the average, it was then plotted onto a scatter graph and also plotted with a line of best fit. The results have concluded that as the amount of baking soda increases, so does the amount of carbon dioxide being released. This can be proved with the positive correlation of the data shown with the line of best fit. Moreover, there is a smaller increase in the volume of gas produced between 0.4 g to 1.0 g, however, the difference between 0.2 g and 0.4 g is larger, but, this may be due to errors that occurred, which will be discussed

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