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Practical Activities: Cooling and Crystal Size

1. The document describes an experiment to investigate how cooling rate affects crystal size in a saturated solution. It involves cooling the solution in three different ways - in air, in ice water, and in a cotton wool-insulated beaker - and observing the crystal size after a day. 2. The procedure involves preparing a saturated potash alum solution, dividing it into three test tubes, and cooling one in air, one in ice water, and one insulated in cotton wool. The crystals are observed after a day to determine which method produced the largest and smallest crystals. 3. The results are to be used to explain how cooling rate affects crystal size in igneous rocks, with faster cooling in extr

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Practical Activities: Cooling and Crystal Size

1. The document describes an experiment to investigate how cooling rate affects crystal size in a saturated solution. It involves cooling the solution in three different ways - in air, in ice water, and in a cotton wool-insulated beaker - and observing the crystal size after a day. 2. The procedure involves preparing a saturated potash alum solution, dividing it into three test tubes, and cooling one in air, one in ice water, and one insulated in cotton wool. The crystals are observed after a day to determine which method produced the largest and smallest crystals. 3. The results are to be used to explain how cooling rate affects crystal size in igneous rocks, with faster cooling in extr

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1 Practical activities

1 Cooling and crystal size 5 Place the three test-tubes in a test-tube rack. Put a
filter funnel in one of the test-tubes. Hold the beaker
Purpose of hot solution with an oven mit or towel so it will
To investigate how cooling rate affects the not burn you. Carefully pour about 25 mL of the
size of crystals. saturated solution into the filter funnel. The test-
tube should be about half full. Repeat this process
Materials for the other two test-tubes. Place a plug of cotton
wool in the mouth of each test-tube.
• rubber gloves
6 Place one test-tube in the cotton wool, one in the
• oven mitt or towel
SAFETY ice water, and one in an empty beaker as shown in
• 3 × 50 mL test-tubes
Wash your Figure 8.1.14.
and test-tube rack
skin with soap and
• 4 × 250 mL beakers water immediately if you
• ice come into contact with cotton wool plug
potassium aluminium
• cotton wool
sulfate solution.
• hotplate or Bunsen
Call your teacher
burner, tripod,
immediately if it contacts
bench mat, gauze
your face or eyes.
mat
Be careful at all times
• stirring rod
with boiling water.
• filter funnel
• a sample of about
air cotton wool ice water
25 g of potash alum

Procedure Figure
1 Put about 100 mL of water into a 250 mL beaker and 8.1.14
heat it until it is boiling. Turn the hotplate or Bunsen
burner off once the water boils.
7 Leave the beakers in a safe place such as a cupboard
2 While waiting for your water to boil, make an ice
for at least a day.
bath by half-filling another of the beakers with ice
water. Results
3 Insulate another beaker with enough cotton wool to Observe the contents of the test-tubes in the next lesson.
allow a test-tube to sit upright in the middle. Record your observations.
4 Wearing rubber gloves, carefully lift the beaker of Discussion
hot water off the gauze mat and tripod and place it
on the benchtop. Dissolve all the potash alum in the 1 State which test-tube had the biggest crystals and
hot water. It all should dissolve if you stir it well with which had the smallest crystals.
the stirring rod. 2 State which test-tube cooled the fastest and which
cooled the slowest.
3 Use the results of this experiment to explain the
difference between crystal sizes in extrusive and
intrusive igneous rocks.

Rocks 287

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