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Colligative Properties & Osmotic Pressure

Peter Jeschofnig, Ph.D. Version 42-0149-00-01

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This document is not meant to be a substitute for a formal laboratory report. The Lab Report Assistant is simply a summary of the experiment’s questions, diagrams if needed, and data tables that should be addressed in a formal lab report. The intent is to facilitate student’s writing of lab reports by providing this information in an editable file which can be sent to an instructor

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A. Record your observations and your time and temperature data in tables. …show more content…

In your experiment is the Karo® hypertonic or hypotonic to the egg? The KARO syrup is hypertonic to the egg therefore there is a lower concentration outside of the (in the solution) than inside of the egg. So diffusion will occur here, meaning water will move from inside the egg to the outside in the KARO solution. This is shown with the obvious size differences in the egg as time increases. The egg becomes smaller and decreases in mass.

C. Historically certain colligative properties – freezing point depression, boiling point elevation, and osmotic pressure – have been used to determine molecular mass. (Now there are instrumental methods to determine this.) Of these three, osmotic pressure is the most sensitive and gives the best results. Molecular mass can be found according the following equation:

Π = MRT

Where: Π = osmotic pressure,

M = molarity of solution,

R = the ideal gas constant (0.0821 L×atm/mol×K), and

T = Kelvin temperature.

Sample Problem

0.125 grams of a starch is dissolved in 100 mL of water at 25oC and has an osmotic pressure of
5.15 mmHg. What is its molecular mass?

Since the gas constant, R, requires atmospheres as pressure units, we have to convert 5.15 mmHg to atmospheres:

5.15 mm Hg * 1 atm/760 mm Hg = 0.00678 atm.

0.00678 atm = M (0.0821) (273 + 25 =

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