Step by Step Procedure

Materials:
50ml glass beaker
paper filter
blue tape
2 locking test tubes
bunsen burner + necessities for setting up bunsen burner
thermometer
peg board
glass beaker with a lip
thing to hold glass beaker
scopula
flame test wand
50 ML Water
Procedure
1. Create a list or document to record characteristic properties of matter, throughout the
procedure record any
2. Lay the paper filter over the glass beaker
3. Push down on the center of the paper filter with you finger until it makes a cone
4. Tape two sides of the cone to the glass beaker so your cone doesnt fall into the beaker.
5. Add about a Tsp of water to the soil mixture
6. Close the lid and shake a couple times
7. Pour the soil containing Unknown Substance into the paper filter. If you cant get it all out
use a scopula. The water should be seeping through the filter.
8. Once most of the water has seeped through, pick up the paper filter and squeeze out the rest
of the water.
9. Once you have taken out as much of the water as you can put the soil back into the
container you were keeping it in.
10. Pour the liquid out of the glass beaker into two different lock test tubes equally. Its
important to have a back up liquid incase something goes wrong with one of them in the
next step.
11. Pour one of your locking test tube with liquid into the glass beaker.
12. Slide the glass into the thing holding the glass beaker. Start the bunsen burner and put it
under the glass beaker.
13. Put the thermometer in the liquid. Heat it up until 100 degrees celsius.
14. Start watching it closely when you have very little water left, turn of the bunsen burner. (If I
had more time I would have included a picture of how I set up the Bunsen Burner).
15. Pour the small amount of liquid left into a small evaporation dish. Setup the Bunsen Burner..
(Would include picture if time).
16. Turn on your bunsen burner and put it under your evaporation dish.
17. Stir the liquid with the end of the thermometer. The rest of the liquid will evaporate fast.

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As soon as all of the liquid has evaporated turn of the Bunsen Burner.
Using a scopula scrape of the solid from the dish. It should now be a powder substance.
Take a flame test wand and wet it in water.
Dip it in the evaporation dish with your solid powder
Turn on your Bunsen Burner and move your flame test wand through the flame.
Look at the color of the flame and record this on you characteristic properties of matter doc.
Chose three characteristic properties of your characteristic properties. Keep looking for a
substance that best fits your characteristic properties of matter. Read about the substance
and make sure everything about it fits the information you know about the substance.

3 Characteristic Properties Of Matter

1. Solid
2. Blue
3. Flame Green

Copper Sulfate