Conversion one

• How many cm of copper wire did we put in the beaker?

  13
• In the first conversion, we put 20 mL of what acid into the copper?

  dilute nitric acid (HNO3)
• Why did we use the fume hood in the first reaction?

  to allow the reaction to complete
• What was the brownish-orange gas that was produced in the first conversion?

  nitrogen dioxide (NO2)
• Why was the solution in the first conversion blue?

  the blue color is a characteristic of aqueous Cu 2+ ions
• What is the name of the final solution in converison one?

  Copper(ll) Nitrate