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True melting is taken as the first appearance of liquid within the bulk of the sample. Some students take a larger mass of crystals when taking a melting point and this can affect the way a compound looks as it melts (smaller amounts give more accurate melting point values). Sometimes a person will call the melting point as begun when the sample moves a bit, softens, or shrinks, or a droplet outside the bulk of the sample. Only one person can look through the lens at a time, so the decision resides solely on that one person's judgement. When observing a melting point, different people can make different judgements as to when a compound has begun to melt.If the heating block is heated too rapidly, the thermometer cannot keep up, and reads a value which is lower than the actual temperature of the heating block and of the compound. Environmental test equipment is used in a variety of environments including: Environmental Chemical Testing.

To obtain an accurate melting point value, the device must be heated slowly near the melting point in order for the thermometer's sensor to be the same temperature as the heating block. Key Applications of Environmental Testing.

One of the lab partners may have heated the melting point device too rapidly.

If you ever suspect that a particular device is out of calibration, you should report it to the Coordinator or ask for some standards so that you can check it yourself. The teaching labs have about 40 such instruments, and occasionally some of them are out of calibration.

There is some variability between melting point apparati.

In the teaching labs, there are a few reasons which can account for two different people getting a different melting point range for the same sample of the same compound. Hint: go to the Chemical Information page.) What are the melting points of these compounds? (They are not listed in the Tables in this Handbook. You might even question whether the compound is even ferrocene.Ģ) You isolated lidocaine and novocaine in the laboratory. Note that the literature reports a 1° mp range for this compound.Įxtremely impure, with a 4° mp range over 10° below the literature value. (Did you have trouble finding this compound in the Handbook? Often compounds are listed under the parent compound, in this case benzoic acid.)

A mp range of 4° indicates that the compound is less pure than the naphthalene and benzophenone examples given above. It is probably pure enough for most purposes. Somewhat impure, with a mp range of 2° and the mp depressed by 1-3°. Only slightly impure, since the range is only 1° and it is very close to the literature value.