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APPROPRIATE LAB REPORT TITLE Student Names Date of Submission The Formal Report must be typed and written in the third-person past tense, e.g. “The purity of a sample of Athenium Baking Soda was determined by ____….” BE SURE TO REVIEW YOUR GRADED PROCEDURE PROPOSAL (PP) AS YOU ARE WRITING YOUR LAB REPORT, AND TAKE INTO ACCOUNT ANY FEEDBACK, CORRECTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS PROVIDED BY YOUR TA! Please submit one formal report per group, with all lab partners’ full names listed atop the document.

INTRODUCTION Begin with a 1-3 sentence overview of the experiment that you performed. The last sentence of this paragraph will act as a thesis statement, and should succinctly describe the central goal of the experiment as well as your most important results. The second paragraph of the introduction should provide relevant background information, e.g. why did you perform this experiment and why should your reader care about your results? Discuss how the experiment addressed concepts studied in previous CHEM 1215/1225 experiments, and restate any original hypotheses you made regarding plausible outcomes. The last paragraph(s) of the introduction should discuss the theory behind each technique you used in the experiment, where “theory” refers to the chemistry behind the experiment, not to the actual stepwise procedure. You should include any relevant equations pertaining to each technique, but do not include any sample calculations. (1 paragraph per technique.)

EXPERIMENTAL Provide a bullet-point list of reagents (chemicals) and equipment used in the experiment; include all chemical phases and concentrations where applicable Next, write a summary of the procedure you followed when conducting the experiment(s), where, as with all CHEM 1225 submissions, your procedure must be written in your own words, e.g. do not simply copy a procedure from the lab manual or any other source. In addition to describing how you performed the experiments, be sure to address how you ultimately determined the purity of your baking soda sample and identified which contaminants, if any, were present. Your procedure must be presented in paragraph form and should be written so that someone with a basic knowledge of General Chemistry techniques and Measurenet could follow your descriptions and replicate your experiment. RESULTS Organize all of your results into data tables, where your table should have titles and labeled rows and columns. Your tables should include all raw data (e.g. masses, volumes, etc.), as well as all calculated values (e.g. mass of NaHCO3, mass % NaHCO3, etc.). You MUST include sample calculations for full credit; calculations can be typed or neatly handwritten. Include any relevant graphs or spectra you collected in this section as well, where each graph or spectrum must have a descriptive title and labeled axes. Experiment 15 Lab Report

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DISCUSSION Discuss and comment on the significance of your experimental results. Is your data accurate and/or precise? Discuss possible sources of error in your experiment, and propose procedural changes that may reduce such errors in future trials of the experiment. Additionally, discuss whether your experimental results allowed you to achieve the original goal of the experiment (which should have been addressed in the Introduction). Were any original hypotheses you made proven correct or incorrect? Were any of your data or results surprising in any way?

CONCLUSION Summarize the experiment and your most important results in 1-2 paragraphs.

BIBLIOGRAPHY List all references used when writing your proposal, where possible resources may include your CHEM 1215/1225 lab materials, CHEM 1210/1220 class textbook or notes, online resources, etc. Your bibliography does not need to follow strict APA (or other) guidelines, but each reference should include, at minimum, the reference material’s title, author(s) and any other identifying information such as website URL address and date visited, page number, textbook ISBN, etc. In other words, your bibliography should be detailed enough such that your reader can locate all specific source material based solely on your reference information.

Experiment 15 Lab Report

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