Ideal Gas Law Experiment: Carbon Dioxide Production

The aim of the experiment measure the volume and pressure of a given amount of gas (the number of molecules), for constant as well as varying temperatures and study the relation between pressure, volume, and temperature of a gas.

And trying to calculate the molar amount of carbon dioxide

Theory:

In this experiment we are trying to collect the carbon dioxide, which is formed by warming the sodium bicarbonate, as the following reaction occurs:

2NaHCO3(s) ???? Na2CO3(s) + 2 CO2(g) + H2O(g)

Mole is a unit of measurement used to measure the number of things, usually large amount of small objects such as molecules and atoms . One mole of something is equal to 6.02214078×1023 of same things.

Like all units, a mole has to be based on something reproducible. A mole is the quantity of anything that has the same number of particles found in 12.000 grams of carbon-12. That number of particles is 6.02214078×1023 Avogadro's Number, which is roughly 6.02214078×1023 A mole of carbon atoms is carbon atoms.

A mole of carbon atoms is 6.02214078×1023 carbon atoms. A mole of chemistry teachers is 6.02214078×1023 chemistry teachers. It's a lot easier to write the word 'mole' than to write 6.02214078×1023 anytime you want to refer to a large number of things. Basically, that's why this particular unit was invented.