A perfect Lab Report

Name: your name

Date: due date
Course: SNC__D-0__
Partners names: Dick and Jane
Teacher: Mrs. K. Sauvé
 A Perfect Lab

Purpose: To determine the effects of mixing baking soda and vinegar.

Hypothesis: It is predicted that when baking soda and vinegar are mixed together there will be a
chemical change. This is predicted because baking soda is a base and vinegar is an acid and when
they will start to bubble and form a gas, a sign of a chemical change.

Materials: Please refer to Nelson Science 10, page 201, Mixing acids and bases

Procedure: Please refer to Nelson Science 10, page 201, Mixing acids and bases

Observations:

Trial Number Qualitative Observations

1 • As soon as the baking soda and vinegar mixed they
started to foam and bubble.
• The beaker felt a little warmer to touch
• The mixed flowed out of the beaker
• There appeared to be less of the reactants left in the
beaker at the end
2 • Same as trial one, however, a little more baking soda
was used so the reaction was even quicker
• More bubbles appeared and they appeared more
quickly
3 • Same as trial two, however, a little less baking soda
was used so the reaction was a bit slower
• Less bubbles appeared and they appeared more
slowly

Discussion:
It was observed that when baking soda and vinegar were mixed bubbles and a little bit of heat
was produced. When more or less baking soda was used the reaction went faster (with more)
or slower (with less) as the speed that the bubbles appeared and the amount of bubbles
produced change. Some improvements that could be made to this lab in the future are to
actually measure the mass of the reactants before mixing to be sure about how much baking
soda was used. A graduated cylinder could have been used instead of a beaker to measure the
height of the bubbles to see how much the height changed. Different acids and bases could
have been used to see if they have a similar reaction. A timer could have also been used to
measure how fast the bubbles appeared. Some errors that occurred in the lab were that some
of the baking soda was spilled on the desk, this is a safety issue. The amount of vinegar used
each time was about the same, but a graduated cylinder should have been used to measure the
volume as it is more precise than a beaker and could ensure that the same volume was used
each time.

Conclusion: It was observed that when an acid, such as vinegar, and a base, such as baking
soda are mixed together there is a chemical reaction that results in bubbles and heat being
produced. It was also observed that when more of a reactant is used the faster the reaction
goes and vice versa.