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May 4 2013 07:53pm
For the molality i got 6.99m, but im not sure if thats right. could someone check that? Also i need help with two following questions after it.

V. Determine the Molar Mass of glycerin from the freezing point depression data.
Mass of glycerin used: 2.84g
Freezing point of solution. Reading point #1 -3.4 degree celsius #2 -4.2 degree cescius Average: -3.8 degree celsius ΔTf: -13 degree celsius

Molality of Soultion:______________

Determine the Molar Mass of glycerin from experimental data. What value will you assign i? _1_

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Finally, given that the formula for glycerin is C3H8O3, calculate % error in your determination?
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May 5 2013 06:15am
I'm a little bit confused here. I assume you are adding glycerin to water in order to lower the freezing point? Tf is supposed to be the change in temperature of the freezing point? If this is the case then your Tf should be -3.8, (freezing point changed from 0 for pure water to -3.8 for the solution).

Once you have the correct Tf you can calculate your molality using Km, which is just a constant for different solutions that you can look up online. It looks like you've already done this given that you have a molality, but if you used 13 for Tf I'm thinking yours may be incorrect.

This looks like it was from a chem lab, I hope you recorded the how much water that you used? In order to solve from here you really need to give us this information. You would want to use your molality that you calculated in order to calculate number of mols of glycerin. Do this by the equation molality = mols of glycerin / (Kg of water, or whatever solvent you actually used).

You should now have mols of glycerin. Calculate molar mass by just doing 2.84gm / number of mols.

Calculate % error by looking up the actual molar mass of glycerin and doing ( ( |Actual Molar Mass| - |Experimental Molar Mass| ) / Actual Molar Mass ) * 100

This post was edited by RzChaos on May 5 2013 06:16am
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