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Chemistry - Unit 4 Demo Notes
Part I – Pure Substances vs. Mixtures
1.
What are some physical properties of substances?
2.
What do you observe when you add sugar to water?
3.
What do you observe when you add sugar to ethanol?
4.
Draw particles diagrams for each of these observations:
sugar in water
sugar in ethanol
5.
What about water and ethanol?
6.
What happens when you add sugar to the water and ethanol mixture?
7.
Draw Particle Diagrams of each situation:
water and ethanol
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8.
What do you observe when you mix sand and salt?
9.
How could you separate the mixture between sand and salt? (Hint: what do
you know about water and sand? What about water and salt?)
10.
A mixture is comprised of __________________ pure substances.
11.
What do these activities tell you about the properties of mixtures?
12.
Can you separate the mixture of water and ethanol? How?
13.
If ethanol has a boiling point of 78.4oC what would the boiling point of water
and ethanol appear to be?
14.
Sketch a heating curve for the mixture water and ethanol.
15.
Look up methods of mixture separation in your textbook and make a list
complete with a description of each technique. You must discuss a minimum
of three techniques.
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Part II - Compounds
1.
What do observe about the four samples?
Iron filings:
Sulfur:
Iron and Sulfur Sample #1:
Iron and Sulfur Sample #2:
2.
What happens when your instructor passes a magnet through each of the
iron and sulfur samples?
3.
Propose an explanation for the results of each magnet pass.
4.
Sketch particle diagrams of each of the iron and sulfur mixtures.
Fe and S sample #1
Fe and S sample #2
Electrolysis of Water
5.
At what electrode is gas accumulating at faster?
6.
What do you notice about the ratios of volume between the electrodes?
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7.
What do you think is happening to the liquid water?
8.
How is the liquid splitting? Will it continue to split if the power was turned
off?
9.
What do you observe during the flaming splint test with Hydrogen?
10.
What do you observe during the glowing splint test with Oxygen?
11.
What can you say about the quantity of energy transferred during these
reactions?
Notes for Video
Summary
Some pure substances can be _______________ into simpler substances. Those that
cannot be broken down are said to be ____________, those that can be broken down
to elemental substances are _____________. Not all the particles that form pure
substances are simple, some contain smaller particles that combine, or are
compounded, in ________ _______________ and are not merely simple mixtures of
these smaller particles.
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