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Self-Inflating Balloon Lab

The document outlines a lab experiment involving a self-inflating balloon using sodium bicarbonate and citric acid, focusing on observations, reaction types, enthalpy calculations, and gas production. It includes questions about the reaction's thermodynamics, conductivity of the solution, and stoichiometry. Additionally, it covers the titration curves of citric and carbonic acids, along with their acid strength rankings.

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Self-Inflating Balloon Lab

The document outlines a lab experiment involving a self-inflating balloon using sodium bicarbonate and citric acid, focusing on observations, reaction types, enthalpy calculations, and gas production. It includes questions about the reaction's thermodynamics, conductivity of the solution, and stoichiometry. Additionally, it covers the titration curves of citric and carbonic acids, along with their acid strength rankings.

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Self-Inflating Balloon Lab

1. What do you observe through sight/sound/touch?

2. Is the Rxn in the balloon endothermic or exothermic?

3. Sign of ΔH? _________


4. Inside the balloon is a small pellet of sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) and a bag of citric
acid, H₃C₆H₅O₇. Write out the balanced molecular equation. Label states of matter.

5. The resulting carbonic acid decomposes into carbon dioxide and water. Re-write your
balanced molecular equation to show this. Label states of matter.

6. Would the remaining solution of products conduct electricity? Why or why not?

7. Identify the gas that fills the balloon:_________

8. Using the given heats of formation, solve for the Enthalpy of the Rxn, △H°rxn.
△Hf°298
Substance (kJ/mol)
H₃C₆H₅O₇ -1540
NaHCO3 -950.
CO2 -394
H2O -242
Na₃C₆H₅O₇ -2412

9. Sketch out an energy profile for this reaction. Label △H°rxn in your profile.
10. Add in a dotted line of how the energy profile would be different if a catalyst were added.
11. How does hitting the balloon play a role in the energy profile?

12. Are the bonds of the products stronger or weaker than those of the reactants?

13. What do you know about the entropy of the system?

14. Sign on ΔS? _________


15. Is this Rxn thermodynamically favorable? _________
16. Sign on ΔG? _________
17. Is this Rxn enthalpy and/or entropy driven? __________________
18. How was stoichiometry applied in the making of this valentine gift?

19. On the backside of this paper, make up masses and solve a limiting reactant problem for this
system. Begin with masses of both reactants and solve for the final volume of gas at STP.

20. Citric acid has a Ka1 of 7.4x10-4, Ka2 of 1.7x10-5 & Ka3 of 6.4x10-6 and carbonic acid has a Ka1
of 4.3x10-7 and Ka2 of 4.8x10-11. Organize the five acid formulas in order of increasing strength.

21. Provide a rough sketch of a titration curve of citric acid and of carbonic acid if each were
titrated with NaOH. Clearly label each pKa.
Titration of citric acid, H₃C₆H₅O₇ Titration of carbonic acid, H2CO3

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