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Experiment 4

The document outlines an experiment to study the properties of acetic acid, including its odour, solubility in water, effect on litmus paper, and reaction with sodium bicarbonate. Various tests are conducted, revealing that acetic acid has a vinegar-like smell, is soluble in water, is acidic in nature, and reacts with sodium bicarbonate to produce carbon dioxide. The experiment utilizes common laboratory materials and chemicals to demonstrate these properties.

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Experiment 4

The document outlines an experiment to study the properties of acetic acid, including its odour, solubility in water, effect on litmus paper, and reaction with sodium bicarbonate. Various tests are conducted, revealing that acetic acid has a vinegar-like smell, is soluble in water, is acidic in nature, and reacts with sodium bicarbonate to produce carbon dioxide. The experiment utilizes common laboratory materials and chemicals to demonstrate these properties.

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Experiment 4

PROPERTIES OF ACETIC ACID(ETHANOIC ACID)


Aim: To study the following properties of acetic acid (ethanoic acid):
(i) Odour(smell) (ii) solubility in water
(iii) effect on litmus (iv) reaction with sodium bicarbonate(sodium hydrogen
carbonate)
Materials Required:
Test tubes, water, litmus paper, test tube stand, a dropper, a beaker, a cork with
a bent tube fixed in it.
Chemicals Required: Acetic acid (ethanoic acid), distilled water, sodium
bicarbonate and freshly prepared lime water.
Procedure:
1. Dilute the given acetic acid with distilled water in a beaker.
2. Pour 5ml of acetic acid in a test tube and perform the following tests.
S.No. Test Experiment Observation Inference
1. Odour Take 5ml of acetic It has a Acetic acid has a
acid in a test tube peculiar vinegar like smell.
and smell it by pungent
wafting. smell,
(vinegar like
smell)
2. Solubility in Take 2ml of water It dissolves Acetic acid is
water in a test tube, add in water to soluble in water in
10-15 drops of from all proportions.
acetic acid and homogeneou
shake it. s solution.
3. Effect on Use a clean Blue litmus Acetic acid is
litmus dropper and pour paper turns acidic in nature.
1-2 drops of acetic red.
acid on blue litmus
paper.
4. Sodium Take a pinch of Reaction Acetic acid and
bicarbonate test sodium begins, brisk sodium
bicarbonate in a effervescenc bicarbonate react
clean test tube and e is seen, a to liberate CO2 gas.
add 1 ml of dilute colourless
acetic acid in the gas is
test tube. evolved.
Fix a cork with Lime water CO2 gas evolved
bent delivery tube turns milky. above reacts with
in the mouth of the calcium hydroxide
above test tube. to form calcium
Dip the other end carbonate which is
of the delivery tube insoluble in water.
in a test tube Ca(OH)2 + CO2-
containing freshly CaCO3+H2O
prepared lime
water.

Reaction:
NaHCO3 (s) + CH3COOH (l)-- CH3COONa (aq)+ H2O (l)+ CO2(g)

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