Mole Ratio Lab!

Today we did a mole ratio lab, which included the following:

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2Fe + 3CuCl₂ ---> 3Cu + 2FeCl₃

We:
-wanted to discover the amount of moles of copper made in the reaction of iron and copper ii chloride
- wanted to discover the amount of moles of iron was used in the reaction
- wanted to figure out the ratio of moles of iron to moles of copper
-wanted to figure out the amount of atoms and formula units.

Please refer to lab report for materials and procedures, in-class.

To sum it up:
We mixed the CuCl₂ with water, then let the iron nails sit in it for a number of minutes. Before we put in the nails, the solution was bright blue, but with the addition of iron it produced a brownish color, and copper formed on the nails. We scraped the copper off the nails, decanted the copper, and found that 2.25g of copper was produced after 8.19g of CuCl₂ was added.

Here is a youtube video very similar to our experiment, except the iron was kept in the solution for a longer time.


(apologies for the spelling errors, this is the most decent video we could find, and it shows all the steps!)