Making salts

 Making Salts

Method

1. Add 20 mL of sulfuric acid to a 100mL beaker, heat the acid until it reactions 70C. Turn off bunsen burner.

2.Once heated, use a spatula to add pea-sized portions of copper oxide to the beaker, stir the mixture for 30 seconds.

3. Repeat step 2 until no more will dissolve. Allow beaker to cool.

4. Fold the filter paper and place it in the funnel. Place the filter funnel into the seconds beaker.

5.make sure the beaker is cool enough to hold at the top. The contents should still be hot. You may need your teacher to complete this step.

6. Gently swirl the contents of the beaker to mix, and then pour in the filter paper in the funnel. allow to filter through.

7. Rinse the beaker you used to heat the mixture previously, and place it back on top of your tripod filled with 50-60mL of water .

8. Place the evaporating basin on top on top of the beaker and carefully pour some of the solution from the beaker into the beaker into the evaporating.

9.Gently heat the beaker until solution in the evaporating basin has reduced by half.

10. leave the evaporating basin to cool