Magnesium Burning Lab

Materials
1.Crucible
2.Magnesium
3.Scale
4.Bunsen Burner
5.Ring Stand

Safety:
1. Do not look at burning magnesium, bright enough to harm eyes.
2. Wear safety goggles.
3. Use the tongs to hold magnesium.

Procedure:
1. Record the mass of the crucible
2. Take strips of magnesium and weigh them
3. Turn on the bunsen burner below the crucible
4. Make a ball with the magnesium strips and place them in the crucible
5. Put the lid on the crucible and wait for the magnesium to light, if it does not light, then take the lid off and use the tongs to take a strip of magnesium out and light it, then look through corner of eye and place in the crucible.
6. After it is all burned in the crucible, turn off the bunsen burner and then weigh it and subtract the weight of the crucible.
7. After that hook it up to the batteries and the lights to see if it conducts electricity.

Question:
1.Magnesium Before-.17g Magnesium After-.22g Increase-.05g
2.The burning magnesium produced lots of light which means that it was electrical energy.
3.We know it reacts with the air because when it burned it gave off a very bright light.
4.MgO Mg^3N^2
5.The product has to be made up of mostly oxygen because the majority of the light when it was burning was white.
6.The magnesium conducted electricity and it was an ionic bond because a nonmetal and metal were the two elements bonding.
7.If the magnesium was only partially burned and strips of magnesium were left then the mass could have increased.
8.The majority of magnesium in our bodies is found in our bones. Other magnesium is in tissues and organs and it is an ingredient in multi vitamins.
9.Milk of magnesia.