The Diary Game || 10-1-24 || A Lab day in school.

_{A mixture of cupric sulphate and distilled water.}

Nothing beats the feeling of doing what you love. At this point, even when it gets tiring, you still find some joy in it. That's the feeling I get being a chemistry student.

Morning Activities

As a student, I begin my day quite early. This is so I could comfortably plan and meet up with the day's activities.
I woke up to my alarm which was set for 4:00am. This is a very quiet time and I love saying my prayers by this time. After my morning devotion, I took some time to plan my day and mentally prepare myself.

Having no early morning lectures, I decided to read instead rushing to take my bath. Though I had no early morning lectures, I had practicals to take path in and this practicals was scheduled for 10am which I really looked forward to.
After reading for a while, I took my bath, had breakfast and headed to school.

Activities in the Lab

By 10am, we were all gathered at the lab but due to some inconvenience, the practicals began later than expected.
For this practicals we were to prepare a complex salt, copper (II) tetraamine sulphate monohydrate.

_{The manual page for the practicals we carried out.}

Apparatus and Chemicals used.

To successfully carry out this practicals, we made use of a variety of a apparatus and chemical compounds. They include; Conical flask, funnel, measuring cylinder, weighing balance, oven, stirring rod, filter paper, ammonium and ethanol. The pictures below explains better.

_{A picture with some apparatus and chemicals we used.}

Conical flask and funnel.	Ethanol

Cupric sulphate	Stirring rod

Weighing balance	Oven for drying

Having all these needed apparatus present, we proceed to carrying out the practicals.
First we weighed out 5g of the cupric sulphate using the weighing balance. We then dissolved it by adding 20cm³ of water. After dissolving, we went ahead to add 8.0cm³ of our ammonia solution to the mixture and stirred slowly with the stirring rod.

5g of Cupric sulphate in a beaker	Stirring after adding water and ammonia solution.

After stirring until all precipitate redissolved, we further added 30cm³ of the ethanol and stirred it to precipitate the complex salt.
As the final precipitate formed, they was a colour change. From here we filtered the solution and dried the precipitate in the oven.

Stirring after adding ethanol to give the complex salt precipitate	Colour change from deep blue to light blue.

_{Checking the precipitate in the oven}

When it was properly dried, we brought it out, weighed it and recorded the necessary observations.
Though the practical took a while to finish, I had a good time in the Lab.

Evening Activities

We finished everything about the experiment, including answering questions that follows, by past four. From there I headed home where I took my bath and slept off.
Waking up around 8pm, I had dinner and started doing an assignment which was to be submitted the next day.

_{The assignment questions}

I stayed up doing my assignment and reading until 1:00am before resting again.
In all it was a busy and interesting day where I learnt how to practically prepare a complex salt of copper (II) tetraamine sulphate monohydrate.

    Thanks for reading through!