Pay careful attention to the safety precautions recommended for the type of experiment you’re doing. You will need to incorporate these into your lab report.
Write in complete sentences. Use passive voice – “Water was poured” rather than “I poured water. ” Stay in the third person – “Scientists claim X” rather than “I discovered scientists claim X. ” Be careful of verb tenses. Most of your report should use present tense verbs, unless you are explaining what you did in the experiment, or what has been written in the past about it. For example, “One problem in conducting this experiment is X” rather than “One problem in conducting this experiment was/will be X. ”
”At 50 degrees Celsius, when XO is combined with YO, XY and O2 will form. ”
Experiment 7: Identification of the Results of X + Y Eloise Texeira (etexeira@wonderful. net) Partner: Jose Marques (jmarques@wonderful. net) CHEM 215-08 July 14, 2015 Professor Lewis
What do we know beforehand (previous knowledge or research around the experiment)? Why did you choose to do this experiment? What was the purpose of the experiment? What do you believe you will discover? Why do you believe that your experiment will turn out in a particular way?
Your equation should be correctly balanced, with your stoichiometric coefficients reduced. For example, at 50 degrees Celsius, XO(l) + YO(l) -> XY(l) +O2(g).
Keep in mind that other scientists will use this section of your paper to reproduce your results, so be as specific as possible. Here’s an example: “Using a burner, we heated Liquid XO and YO to 50 degrees Celsius. We verified the temperature with a thermometer. We poured the liquids into a third tube, which we’d heated to 50 degrees Celsius. The combination of the 2 liquids formed an O2 gas and Liquid XY inside the tube. ”
Name and amount (in grams) of the final product Melting point of the final product with the known literature value Gas Chromatography Mass Spectroscopy (GCMS) data H NMR data Infrared Spectroscopy (IR) data
As part of this section, write a paragraph about how your results could be used in the future, or the future direction research could go based on your findings.
This includes any relevant papers you read before conducting your experiment, even if you didn’t directly cite them in your report.
