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Gravimetric Analysis Of Nickel

Aim

The aim of this experiment is to determine the percentage of nickel in an


unknown nickel salt, when a solution of alcoholic dimethlyglyoxmine is added to
an aqueous solution of a nickel salt, a precipitate of nickel dimethglyoximate is
precipitated quantitatively. The precipitate may be filter, dried and weighed, and
the weight of nickel in the original salt may therefore calculated.

Dimethylglyoxime

Chemicals

• Unkown nickel salt

• HCL(5mol/dm3)

• Dilute Ammonia (2mol/dm3)

• Dimethylglyoxide solution (1 w/v % in alcohol)

• Silver Nitrate Solution

Method

• Weigh out using an electric balance roughly 0.3-0.4g on the nickel salt
(0.304g)

• Place the salt into a 400 ml beaker, with a glass stirrer and glass watch
glass

• Dissolve the salt in ~50ml of deionised water

• Add 5ml of 5mol/dm3 HCl to the beaker and salt solution

• Dilute the solution with 200ml of deionised water

• Heat the solution on a hot plate with a magnetic stirrer to around 70-80oC
then add a slight excess of dimethylglyoxime reagent ~35ml

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• Add immediately dilute ammonia dropwise till the precipate has formed
then add some excess

• Heat the precipitate and solution till the precipitate has settled

• Measure the weight of a crucible

• Then from suction filtration, filtrate the precipitate from the solution

• Continue to wash the precipitate till it is chloride free (test by testing the
“washings” with silver nitrate continue to wash the precipitate till the test
for chloride is negative)

• Dry the precipitate and measure the weight of Crucible + precipitate

Results & Calculations

Weight of Crucible = 27.04g

Weight of Crucible + precipitate = 27.29g

Weight of precipitate = 0.25g

Number of moles of precipitate = mass / GFM = 0.25/292.7 =8.54x10-4

Once balancing the equation I get the ratio to be 1:1

Actual mass of Nickel produced = 8.54x10-4 x 58.7 = 0.05(amount of nickel in


salt)

Nickel Salt used: ammonium nickel sulphate

GFM of salt = 395g

395g of salt  58.7g Nickel

0.3511g of salt 0.052g of Nickel

Yeild % = actual value/theoretical value x100

=0.05/0.052 x100

=96.1%

395g of salt 58.7g of Ni

100%-->14.86%

14.86 is the theoretical % of Ni in salt, my results

0.3511g of salt 0.05g of Ni in you salt

10014.24%

Gordon Forsyth
Error Calculation:- theoretical value of nickel produced in 395g of salt = 14.86%,
actual value of nickel produced in 0.3511g on salt is 14.24%

Error

Experimental-theoretical/experimental x100

=4.2%

Conclusion/Discussion

During this experiment errors are inevitably, errors can be in weighing and
reading errors when measuring out reactants etc. Also not adding enough to
form a full precipitate also not getting all the precipitate out and measured.

Gordon Forsyth

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