Molar Volume Lab

In the lab we did last class, it helped us work towards what we're learning in chemistry right now which is converting L/mol.

During this lab, we filled a sink full of water up to the point where we could fully submerge a gradulated cylinder. We made sure that there were no air bubbles within the cylinder with water in it. Before putting the lighter in the water, we weighed it. While keeping the open end in the water and the bottom sticking out at an angle, we took the lighter and put it under the water, under the opening of the gradulated cylinder and held the lighter button so that only butane would come out. Until the cylinder was filled up to 100mL of butane, we took out the lighter and shook it, and then put it in the warm drying area so that we could weigh the lighter afterwards. There was a bit of a difference in the weight, but there shouldn't be much of a difference in the weight.

The purpose of this lab was to experimentally determine the molar volume of a gas.

Sofia Nguyen