Today in class we finally got to a a lab! It was called Build the Big Ones. The big ones refers to molecules with more than one central atom. The molecules we worked with were ethanol, acetic acid (vinegar), serine, and styrene. We had to build each molecule using spheres, wooden sticks , and metal springs. The wooden sticks represented a single bond and the metal springs represented double bonds. As explained in the directions, a black sphere is carbon, a yellow sphere is hydrogen, a red sphere is oxygen, and a light blue sphere is nitrogen. Here are the pictures for each molecule:
ethanol
acetic acid
serine
styrene
For each molecule we had to determine the central atom, the geometry of the atom, an example would be tetrahedral, the bond angle for that geometry and the hydridization. Here is what me and my partner Katie I. cam up with:
Lastly, we had to do our conclusion for the lab and if any of you had trouble, this is the conclusion Katie and I came up with:
I hope our data table and conlcusion help! Well that was all we did in period 6 today.
The next scribe is......................................Kaitlyn Y.
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