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SENECA COLLEGE OF APPLIED ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY

Experiment #5:
Gravimetric Analysis of Sulfate in Barium Sulfate

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Name: Pauline Mae Mujar

Student ID#: 128-888-3170
Partner(s): Xianglin Zhu
Instructor: Derek Deonandan
Due Date: 20-03-2018
Program: EMT
Course: Fundamentals of Chemistry - Lab
Course Code: CHE251-NBBL

Purpose: /1
In this experiment, the sulfate content of an unknown soluble sample is to be determined. The unknown
is dissolved in distilled water with 6M HCl and 0.1 M barium chloride (BaCl2) solution is added to
precipitate out the sulfate as barium sulfate (BaSO4).

Results: /3
Table 1 shows the data needed in order to compute the percentage of sulfate present in the unknown
soluble sample through gravimetric analysis.

Table 1: Data for Gravimetric Analysis of Sulfate

mass (g)

mass of Empty 250 mL beaker (m1) 98.1335

mass of 250 mL beaker + Unknown _______ (m2) 98.4683

mass of Unknown _______ (m2 – m1) = (m3) 0.3348

mass of Whatman filler No. 44 (m4) 0.7516

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mass of Whatman filter No. 44 + BaSO4 (m5) 1.2959

mass of BaSO4 (m5 – m4) = (m6) 0.5443

Gf x m6 = (m7) 0.2240

% SO42- in Unknown ____T___ (m7/m3) 66.92

The amount of BaSO4 precipitate filtered after drying the unknown sample T was determined to be
0.5543 g.

Sample Calculation /4
Calculating gravimetric factor (Gf) of sulfate.

𝑚𝑜𝑙𝑎𝑟 𝑚𝑎𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑆𝑂42−

𝐺𝑓 =
𝑚𝑜𝑙𝑎𝑟 𝑚𝑎𝑠𝑠 𝐵𝑎𝐶𝑙2
𝑔
96.061
𝐺𝑓 = 𝑚𝑜𝑙
𝑔
233.391
𝑚𝑜𝑙

𝑮𝒇 = 𝟎. 𝟒𝟏𝟏𝟔

Actual yield of BaSO4.

𝑚𝑎𝑠𝑠 𝐵𝑎𝑆𝑂4 = (𝑚𝑎𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑊𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑡𝑒𝑟 #44 + 𝐵𝑎𝑆𝑂4 ) − 𝑚𝑎𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑊𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑡𝑒𝑟 #44

𝑚𝑎𝑠𝑠 𝐵𝑎𝑆𝑂4 = 1.2959 𝑔 − 0.7516 𝑔

𝒎𝒂𝒔𝒔 𝑩𝒂𝑺𝑶𝟒 = 𝟎. 𝟓𝟒𝟒𝟑 𝒈

Percent yield of SO42-.

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𝑔 𝑆𝑂42− = 𝐺𝑓 𝑥 𝑔 𝐵𝑎𝑆𝑂4

𝑔 𝑆𝑂42− = 0.4116 𝑥 0.5443 𝑔

𝒈 𝑺𝑶𝟐−
𝟒 = 𝟎. 𝟐𝟐𝟒𝟎 𝒈

𝑔 𝑆𝑂42−
% 𝑆𝑂42− = 𝑥 100%
𝑔 𝑢𝑛𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑇

0.2240 𝑔
% 𝑆𝑂42− = 𝑥 100%
0.3348 𝑔

% 𝑺𝑶𝟐−
𝟒 = 𝟔𝟔. 𝟗𝟐%

Discussion: /2
Gravimetric analysis is a method in quantitative analysis where an unknown sample is dissolved in an
appropriate solvent, and the analyte is converted to an insoluble form of a known compound. The
precipitate is then collected, dried and weighed. From this weight, the amount or percent of the analyte
in the original sample can be determined.

The experiment was started by dissolving unknown T sample in distilled water and 6 HCl solution. The
addition of BaCl2 solution to form precipitate of BaSO4 was carried out slowly and with continuous stirring
to let the reaction completion. If not enough time for the reaction to complete ,a lower yield of the
precipitate would occur. In this experiment, it is needed to have large crystal formation through slow
precipitation to obtain higher percentage yield of the SO42- present in the unknown sample by slowly
adding the 0.1 M BaCl2.

Conclusion: /1
The result obtained from the conducted experiment yielded to 66.92% of sulfate present in the unknown
sample T.

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