Thursday, November 5, 2015

Measuring Aspirin Product

We got to use our knowledge of converting grams to moles into practice through our aspirin lab. First, we had to finish getting all the of the measurements that we needed. The only one that we had left to weigh was the dried Acetylsalicylic acid (the crystals that we let to dry during break). We trasferred the crystals to the balance and weighed the substance. Our group got 5.4766g of substance which included the mass of the filter paper. Mrs. Frankenberg then told us that we need to convert our starting material and ending material's masses into moles. Using everything we had learned the last few days, I was able to complete this assignment without trouble. My work is shown below:
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Molar Mass of Salicylic Acid (C7H6O3):
(7*12.01)+(6*1.01)+(3*16.00)=138.13 g/mol C7H6O3
Salicylic Acid in Moles:
5.1444g C7H6O3 x (1 mole C7H6O3/138.13 g C7H6O3) = .037243 moles C7H6O3
Mass of Acetylsalicylic Acid:
5.4766g (Acetylsalicylic Acid + filterpater)- .4074g (filter paper)= 5.0692g Acetylsalicylic Acid
Molar Mass of Acetylsalicylic Acid (C9H8O4):
(9*12.01)+(8*1.01)+(4*16.00)=180.17 g/mol C9H8O4
Acetylsalicylic Acid in Moles:
5.0692g C9H8Ox (1 mole C9H8O4/180.17g C9H8O4)=.028135 moles C9H8O4
I checked my work using this website: Endmemo

1 comment:

  1. I agree with you that this isn't that difficult (or at least nowhere near as difficult as the pre-test made it out to be). I'd also like to thank you for the conversion website; I used it to check my calculations as well (It told me I was right!). Congrats on the amount of acetylsalicylic acid you made. Ben and I actually got almost the same amount at .027186molC9H8O4.

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