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Announcements: If in honors, see me for a pass for the seminar this week (Thursday) during Guidance. It’ll be for approximately 30-40 min during 6 th period after DEAR. Thanks! Also, we will be updating portfolios the next time you see me. Bring all tests/quizzes, density letter, abstract practice (from yesterday). Check Website!!!!!!!!!
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Molar Conversion Quiz
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Percent Composition and Chemical Formulas Agenda: 1. Review Percent Composition (LPA) 2. Intro to Empirical and Molecular Formulas 3. Guided Practice 4. Independent Practice
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Objective: My words: SWBAT use percent composition of compounds to formulate empirical and molecular formulas of compounds as demonstrated through a handout/worksheet.
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Review Percent Composition… What are the two ways we can find the percent composition by mass of a compound? If I have a 23 g sample of sodium chloride and found 14 g of that sample to be chlorine, what is the percent composition of the sample? Theoretically, what should the percent composition of sodium chloride be?
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Percent Composition as a conversion factor… You can use percent composition to find the number of grams of any element in a specific compound! Multiply the mass of the compound by a conversion factor based on the percent composition of that element to the compound!
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Percent composition as a conversion factor… Example: Suppose you want to know how much carbon and hydrogen are contained in 90 g of propane (C 3 H 8 ). 1. Find % composition 2. Use that as conversion factor 3. Solve for the element’s mass
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Entrance Ticket You have a sample of table salt in front of you and find that it was 60% chlorine and 40% sodium by mass. If the total mass of your sample was determined to be 50 g of table salt, how much of that mass is chlorine and how much of that mass is sodium?
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Empirical Formulas The percent composition that you found is the data you will need to calculate the basic ratio of elements in that compound. Basic ratio = empirical formula Empirical formula is the lowest whole- number ratio of the atoms in a compound. Ionic formulas, as we learned, were always lowest ratio possible, but molecular formulas were not always like this…
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An empirical formula may or may not be the same as a molecular formula (true formula) of the compound The molecular formula tells the actual amount and each kind of atoms present in the compound Example: Molecular formula: H 2 O 2 Empirical formula: HO
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What are the empirical formulas for the following molecular formulas: H 2 O C 2 H 4 C 3 H 8 C 2 H 4 O 2
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Determining the Empirical formula when you do not know the molecular formula Sometimes you do not know the molecular formula (such as an unknown compound in front of you) Steps: 1. Find the percent composition 2. Find the moles of each element 3. Divide by the lowest moles present and get to a whole number.
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Sample Problem 1 A compound is analyzed and found to contain 25.9% nitrogen and 74.1% oxygen. What is the empirical formula for the compound?
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Sample Problem 2 Calculate the empirical formula for a compound that contains 94.1% oxygen and 5.9% hydrogen
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Sample Problem 3 Calculate the empirical formula for a compound that is 67.6% Hg, 10.8% S, and 21.6% O.
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Sample Problem 4 1,6-Diaminohexane is used to make nylon. What is the empirical formula of this compound if it is 62.1% C, 13.8% H and 24.1% N?
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Determining Molecular Formula Determining the molecular formula is simple when you know your empirical formula! The molecular formula is either the same as the empirical formula or a simple whole- number multiple of the empirical formula Steps: 1. Find empirical formula 2. Divide Molar Mass by EFM 3. multiply through your EF by the whole number found in step 2
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Sample Problem 5 Calculate the molecular formula of a compound whose molar mass is 60 g/mol and empirical formula was found to be CH 4 N.
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Sample Problem 6 Find the molecular formula of ethylene glycol, which is used in antifreeze. The molar mass is known to be 62 g/mol and the empirical formula is CH 3 O.
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Which pair of molecules has the same empirical formula? a. C 2 H 4 O 2 ; C 6 H 12 O 6 b. NaCrO 4 ; Na 2 Cr 2 O 7
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Recap Exit Slip How is the empirical formula different from molecular formula? How do we find the empirical formula? How do we find the molecular formula?
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