Enthalpy of Combustion of Alcohols
Procedure
1. Put 150³ of cold water in an aluminium calorimeter and record its
temperature.
2. Support the calorimeter over a spirit burner containing the ethanol
you are going to burn.
Arrange a suitable draft exclusion system to reduce heat loss.
3. Weigh the burner and Alcohol.
4. Replace the burner under the calorimeter and light the wick.
5. Stir the water with a thermometer.
6. When the water temperature has risen by between 15 and 20ºC
extinguish the burner but continue to stir it until the temperature
stops rising.
Record the highest temperature reached.
7. Reweigh the burner to find the mass of the alcohol that has been
burned.
8. Repeat the experiment at least once more.
9. Now repeat the whole experiment 2 times but you have to use
Methanol the first time and Butanol the second time instead of
Ethanol.
Aim: The aim for this experiment is to find the Enthalpy of combustion
of 3 different alcohols Ethanol, Methanol and Butanol by doing that
I'm going to prove my theory.
How I will collect valid results in my planned experiment
I am planning was to do the experiment I will be very carfully in
following the procedure I always will be wearing impervious clothing.I
will be tryingto keep the wind as low as possible by clothing the
windows .When I will be measuring the mass of water I will be using a
measuring zylinder so I could mearure the mass of water very precily
and I weighed it aswell.On the thermometers that we used I could
measure up to 0.0 .
When I will weigh the burner containing the Alcohol in it I will weigh
it as close as our weighing machine could measure it.I will be also
very carefull about the measurement I checked every reading 2 x.
Before I was doing experiment I made a list with the Equipment and
Materials which I needed to do my Experiment
to get an idea of how I would do my real experiment and what apparatus
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