Midterm Exam

Chemistry 1210
Fall 2015
This midterm exam has two parts where students are responsible for the creation of laboratory procedures.
In Part I, students will be given a brief prompt explaining a scenario and a list of available laboratory
equipment. Students are required to explicitly outline the objective and methods of their experiment.
Upon completion and submission of Part I, the instructor will review the procedure and provide any
necessary data for completion of Part II. For Part II, students will use the provided data to complete
calculations and statistical analysis and/or identify unknown substances.
Part I must be submitted on Blackboard through the SafeAssignment Link provided within the Content
link and Midterm Exam folder. For submission, your document must be a .doc, .docx, .ppt, .pptx, .odt,
.txt, .rtf, .pdf, and .html file formats only. Files of any other format will not be checked through
SafeAssign. Part II must be submitted as a hardcopy to your instructor with all work shown.
Please note: All procedures will be reviewed by the instructor before any and all data is provided.
Students who do not have a complete procedure e.g. missing a step in the procedure that would provide
necessary data may lose points for Part I. However, missing a step in a procedure will not result in
additional loss of points in Part II. All data that is needed for successful completion of Part II will be
provided by the instructor.
Remember: This is a midterm exam. The assignment is to be competed individually. If you perform an act
of academic misconduct against the Academic Integrity Policy, you will be given a grade of zero for your
midterm. If you have questions regarding the assignment, you should ask your instructor, not another
student.

Academic Integrity Acknowledgement:

I understand that the assignment indicated above should be completed individually with no help from
another individual. I understand that if I perform an act of academic misconduct during the completion of
the exam, I will be given a grade of zero.

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Part I: Writing Laboratory Experiments (15 points each, 60 points total)

Prompt 1 A chemist is working on completing inventory of all the chemicals in a storage area. During
inventory, it is discovered that there are four bottles (A, B, C, and D) that do not have labels indicating
what chemical is in the bottle. On a nearby counter in the storage area are five labels. The chemist
believes that four of the five labels belong to the four bottles. The chemist needs to determine what the
four bottles contains so as to properly label the bottles and to complete inventory. The chemist examines
all four liquids and determines that they all are clear liquids. Using concepts from chapters 1-4 of the
textbook, write an objective and procedure that the chemist could follow to determine what each of the
bottles contains if the laboratory has the four bottles containing substances A, B, C, and D, balances,
common laboratory glassware (i.e. graduated cylinders, beakers, flasks, test tubes, etc.), and common
laboratory equipment (i.e. Bunsen burners, thermometers, rubbers stoppers, etc.) available for the chemist
to use.
Prompt 2 A chemistry student is given an unknown organic compound that is known to contain carbon,
hydrogen, and oxygen. The students instructor wants the student to determine the empirical formula of
the organic compound. Using concepts from chapters 1-4 of the textbook, write an objective and
procedure that the chemistry student could follow to determine the empirical formula if the laboratory has
the unknown organic compound, balances, common laboratory glassware (i.e. graduated cylinders,
beakers, flasks, test tubes, etc.), common laboratory equipment (i.e. Bunsen burners, thermometers,
rubbers stoppers, etc.), a furnace, and absorbers available for the student to use.
Prompt 3 Many commonly used substances are compounds that contain hydrates. A student needs to
determine the number of water molecules included in the solid structure of an unknown hydrate provided
by the instructor. Using concepts from chapters 1-4 of the textbook, write an objective and procedure that
the student could follow to determine the number of water molecules in a hydrate if the laboratory has
balances, common laboratory glassware (i.e. graduated cylinders, beakers, flasks, test tubes, etc.), and
common laboratory equipment (i.e. Bunsen burners, thermometers, rubbers stoppers, etc.) available for
the student to use.
Prompt 4 A chemistry student is presented with three unknown white solids. It is known that the solid
has to be compounds A, B, and C. Using concepts from chapters 1-4 of the textbook, write an objective
and procedure that the chemistry student could follow to determine the identity of the unknown solids if
the laboratory has balances, common laboratory glassware (i.e. graduated cylinders, beakers, flasks, test
tubes, etc.), common laboratory equipment (i.e. Bunsen burners, thermometers, rubbers stoppers, etc.),
distilled water, calcium sulfate, and lead (II) nitrate available for the chemistry student to use.