Aspirin Lab

Earlier this week I was observing several other groups doing a lab. The lab was creating aspirin, it involved the use of a couple of dangerous chemicals. They were using sulfuric acid and acetic anhydride which are both highly toxic. I would ahve participated, but my lab partner forgot to study the lab and failed to answer some of the pre lab questions, which meant he was unfit to continue on with the experiment. However there were 5 other groups that were able too, and that is important because we will be using the product from the experiments for several others to come. The lab itself isn't very difficult. it is just very important that you know what you are doing so you do not hurt yourself. The lab procedure is as follows:

You might have noticed that there is part of the lab that I left out, that is because the portion of the lab was on how to purify the aspirin which wasn't nessecary for our experiments. The reason we did this lab meant little to our current unit, but as I said before we are using the product for other experiments that we will be doing next unit.