Thoughts on Aspirin Lab Day 2

My lab partner and I continued our lab today. We proceeded to take the contents of our mixture and clean out and filter away to get the crystals left behind otherwise known as aspirin. We weighed the mixture and left out to dry. The lab calmed down today and was more relaxed. I had a better idea of what we were doing and was more on it. We produced a pretty good amount of aspirin compared to the other groups, but there was one group with mounds of aspirin though. Overall we did pretty good in this lab.

Adding filter paper to Buchner funnel

Before adding the mixture to the filter

Final Product!

Thoughts on Aspirin Lab Day 1

We took the pre-lab and I found it to be quite easy. My entire class that took the quiz on day 1 passed. My lab partner, Claire Frank, and I began our lab by collecting the ingredients and heating the necessary ingredients together and leaving it to sit for 24 hours. The lab was frantic and everyone was moving all different directions, so focusing was not too terribly difficult, but was still hard. We still managed to finish with a little time to spare. What I did find a little aggravating was how far off we were told to sway from the directions and there was some things that weren't in the lab directions.

Boiling the water

Heating the mixture using boiled water

Filter tracing

weight of filter cutout