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This document provides instructions for a lab activity involving calculating molar mass and percent composition of various compounds and substances. Students are asked to complete calculations to determine the percent composition of cookies and cream in Oreos, and the percent and mass of various elements in sample compounds like methane and calcium chloride. They are also asked to explain how to calculate molar mass and percent composition, and perform sample calculations for additional substances like sodium chloride, water, and nitric acid.

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% Comp With Oreo

This document provides instructions for a lab activity involving calculating molar mass and percent composition of various compounds and substances. Students are asked to complete calculations to determine the percent composition of cookies and cream in Oreos, and the percent and mass of various elements in sample compounds like methane and calcium chloride. They are also asked to explain how to calculate molar mass and percent composition, and perform sample calculations for additional substances like sodium chloride, water, and nitric acid.

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Molar Mass and Percent Composition Activity

Do the work/calculations in your notebooks


Write your answers in a different color and submit on schoology

After this lab, I will be able to… recall how to calculate the molar mass of a compound.
calculate the percent composition of a compound.

Part 1 – Whole-Class Data


Using the students present in class today, complete Table 1. Round percent’s to whole numbers.

Table 1 – Class Data


Total # of Total # of Girls Total # of Boys Percent Girls Percent Boys
Students

Key Questions
1. Describe how you calculated the percent of boys present today using the data in the chart in
your response.

2. What do the two percent’s add up to? Is this always true with percent’s?

Part 2 – Oreos
Step 1: Find the mass of the Oreo
Step 2: Separate the cream from the cookie (use a tooth pick to scrape cream off cookie)
Step 3: Fine Mass of the Cookie
Step 4: Find Mass of the Cream
Step 5: Solve for the Percent compositions of cookie and cream in your Oreo

Mass of the whole Mass Of the Cookie Mass of the Cream % composition of % Composition of
Oreo Cookie Cream

Key Questions
3. Which calculation did you use to determine the % composition of an Oreo?

4. Describe a source of error associated with this activity and how it would affect your data.
Part 3 – Compounds

Total Mass of Mass of Percent Percent


Mass Carbon Hydrogen Carbon Hydrogen
Methane, CH4 16.05 g 12.01 g 4.04 g 74.8% 25.2%
Ethane, C2H6 30.08 g 24.01 g 6.06 g 79.9% 20.1%

Key Questions
5. According to the table above, what mass of carbon is present in 16.05 g of methane?

6. Show the set-up that would be used to determine the percent by mass of carbon in methane
and ethane in order to arrive at the answer show in Table 3.

7. What information do you need in order to determine the percent composition by mass of
sodium in sodium chloride?

Part 4 – Molar Mass of Compounds

8. In your own words, explain how you determine the molar mass of a compound?

9. Determine the molar mass of the following compounds. Show your work.
a. NaCl c. CaCl2
b. water d. nitric acid

Part 5 – Percent Composition of Elements in Compounds


10. Using the knowledge gained from this experiment write the percent composition for Calcium
and chlorine in CaCl2.

11. Determine the percent composition of each element in calcium nitrate, Ca(NO3)2.

12. The percent of oxygen in a colorless liquid is determined to be 94.1%. Is this liquid water, or
hydrogen peroxide [H2O2]? Show your work.

13. Nicotine, the addictive drug in cigarettes, contains 74.0% carbon, 8.6% hydrogen, and 17.3%
nitrogen. What mass of each element can be recovered from a 55.0 g sample of nicotine?
(hint- work backwards)

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