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Pre Lab Report

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The experimental procedures for Lab 2 were provided on Blackboard labelled as “Pre-Lab 2: Techniques & Measurement”. In Experiment 1, we used a trip balance and a weighing paper to weigh 15 g of NaCl. 50 mL of H2O was then poured into two 100 mL graduated cylinders. After doing that, a stirring bar was added to one of the 50 mL graduated cylinder of H2O. We then placed the graduated cylinder with the stirring bar onto the stirrer and started the stirrer. As the stirrer kept turning, NaCl was gradually added into the solution until all of the NaCl dissolved. After that, H2O from the 50 mL graduated cylinder was added to the NaCl solution until it reached the 100 mL mark. From this, you can get the concentration of the NaCl solution using the …show more content…

Each solution contained different concentrations as follows: 0.005 mg/mL, 0.010 mg/mL, 0.015 mg/mL, 0.020 mg/mL, and 0.025 mg/mL. Each solution needed to have a volume of 10 mL. Before adding the different concentrations of Coomassie Blue into their separate tubes, the formula C1V1= C2V2 was used in order to determine how much stock solution is needed for the five dilute solutions. Once that number was calculated, a pipette was used to add the amount of stock solution needed for each tube. We then subtracted the amount of stock solution from 10 mL to determine the amount of H2O needed. The calculated amount of H2O was then added to each tube of solution. After doing that, a spectrophotometer was used to determine each solution’s relative absorbance. However, before that, we first had to calibrate the spectrophotometer before determining each solution’s relative absorbance. In order to calibrate the spectrophotometer, a disposable culture tube filled with distilled water was used. We then changed the data rate to 100 and removed the tube with water. In order to determine the relative absorbance, the relative absorbance had to be at 595 nm. Also, during this experiment, an unknown dilution was given to us by the lab instructor. We determined the relative absorbance by using the spectrophotometer and then recorded the results. The procedures for this experiment can be found on page 8 of

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