G8 Preparation of Salts Lab Experiment

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Preparation of Salts Date : ……………………………………………………
Grade 8 Checkpoint Science
Recommended vocabulary for this unit:
• reactants, products, carbonates, sulfates, nitrates, chlorides, indicator, word equation

• neutralisation, filtration, crystallisation, evaporation, excess, saturated.
Learning objectives
9Cc5 Explain how to prepare some common salts by the reactions of metals and metal carbonates and be
able to write word equations for these reactions
9Cc5.1 Outline experimental procedure and the separating techniques to be used for salt preparation.
Metal + Acid  Salt + hydrogen

Metal Oxide + Acid  Salt + water
Metal carbonate + Acid  Salt + water + carbon dioxide
Acid + Base  Salt + Water
All metals do not react with dilute acids, their salts can be made by
reacting the metal oxides or metal cabonates with dil. acids.
Reaction of copper carbonate with dil. sulfuric acid to form copper sulphate
Follow the given procedure
 Wash all the glass apparatus with distilled water.

 Wipe the spatula clean with a tissue
 Measure 20 cm3 of dil.H2SO4 using a measuring cylinder and transfer it to
a
100 cm3 beaker.
 Add small amounts of copper carbonate using a spatula to the beaker
containing the acid.
 Add small spatula amounts until no reaction takes place.
Include a labelled diagram below for the process showing the addition of copper
carbonate
 Use a filter paper, funnel and a clean 100 cm3 beaker to filter the
contents of the beaker.
 The residue is washed two-three times with distilled water
Include a labelled diagram for filtration
Evaporation
 Use Bunsen burner to heat the beaker containing filtrate
 Stop heating as the crystals start appearing
The filtrate is allowed to cool to form crystals

Follow-up questions
1. What were the apparatus used in each stage of preparing copper sulphate ?
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2. What apparatus you would if you had to weigh copper carbonate ?
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3. What safety measures you took while doing the experiment
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4. What was the appearance of copper carbonate ?

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5. What was the appearance of dilute sulfuric acid ?

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6. What did you observe when copper carbonate was added to dilute sulphuric
acid ?
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7. Write down the word equation for the reaction.
8. How did you know that the reaction has stopped ?
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9. Why did you add excess of copper carbonate ?
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10. What happened to the excess of copper carbonate added ?
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11. Why was the reaction mixture filtered ?

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12. The residue was washed with distilled water two-three times, state
the reason for this.
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13. Why was the filterate heated to evaporate ?

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14. What do you mean by a saturated solution ?
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15. Why is distilled water, not tap water, used every time ?
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16. Name the acid and the carbonate used to prepare the following
salts.
a) Calcium acetate
b) Magnesium nitrate
c) Potassium sulphate
d) Sodium citrate
e) Calcium phosphate
f) Copper nitrate
g) Nickel chloride

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Name : ………………………………………………….

Preparation of Salts Date : ……………………………………………………

Grade 8 Checkpoint Science

Recommended vocabulary for this unit:

• reactants, products, carbonates, sulfates, nitrates, chlorides, indicator, word equation

Metal + Acid  Salt + hydrogen

 Wash all the glass apparatus with distilled water.

The filtrate is allowed to cool to form crystals

2. What apparatus you would if you had to weigh copper carbonate ?

4. What was the appearance of copper carbonate ?

5. What was the appearance of dilute sulfuric acid ?

7. Write down the word equation for the reaction.

8. How did you know that the reaction has stopped ?

10. What happened to the excess of copper carbonate added ?

11. Why was the reaction mixture filtered ?

13. Why was the filterate heated to evaporate ?

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