Mohammed AL Hashim

EXPERIMENT 8
Exponential Decay of a Transition Metal Complex Ion

Table of Data for Standard Curve

Concentration (mg/l) Absorbance

1.25 0.027
2.5 0.058
3.75 0.085
5 0.112
Table 1. Date for the Standard Curve

0.12

0.1

y = 0.0226x
0.08 R² = 0.9988
Absorbance

0.06

0.04

0.02

0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Concentration (mg/l)

Figure I. Standard Curve

 time (min) room temperature 35 C 45 C
0 0.101 0.093 0.089
10 0.096 0.079 0.048
20 0.091 0.065 0.0148
30 0.088 0.049 0.013
40 0.084 0.039 0.004
50 0.08 0.03 0.005
60 0.077 0.024 0.004

Table 2. Absorbance from Iron/Phen Solutions at Varying Temperatures

time (min) room temperature 35c 45c

0 4.469026549 4.115044 3.938053
10 4.247787611 3.495575 2.123894
20 4.026548673 2.876106 0.654867
30 3.89380531 2.168142 0.575221
40 3.716814159 1.725664 0.176991
50 3.539823009 1.327434 0.221239
60 3.407079646 1.061947 0.176991

Table 3. Iron Concentration from Iron/Phen Solution at Varying Temperatures

 5

4.5
y = 4.4451e-0.004x
4 R² = 0.9975

3.5
Concentration (mg/l)

2.5 y = 4.336e-0.023x Room temprature

R² = 0.9956
35 C
2
45 C
1.5

1 y = 2.9321e-0.054x
R² = 0.898
0.5

0
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
Time (min)

Figure 2. Iron Concentration vs Time

time (min) room temperature 35c 45c

0 1.497170611 1.41465 1.370686
10 1.446398285 1.251498 0.753251
20 1.3929096 1.056437 -0.42332
30 1.359386908 0.77387 -0.553
40 1.312866893 0.545612 -1.73166
50 1.264076728 0.283247 -1.50851
60 1.225855516 0.060104 -1.73166

Table 4. Natural Log of Iron Concentration from Iron/Phen Solution at Varying

 2
y = -0.0045x + 1.4918
1.5 R² = 0.9975

0.5

0 Room temprature
y = -0.0233x + 1.4669
R² = 0.9956 35 C
-0.5
45 C
-1

-1.5 y = -0.0541x + 1.0757

R² = 0.898
-2

-2.5
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70

Figure 3. Natural Log of Iron Concentration vs Time

run 1 (room
run 2 (35c) run 3 (45c)
temprature)
slope of graph of
Ln[Fe] vs. time -0.0045 -0.0233 -0.0541
value of k 0.0045 0.0233 0.0541
Half life, (min) 154.0327068 29.74880603 12.81233236

Table 5. Half Life Values of Iron from Iron/Phen Solution at Varying Temperatures
CALCULATIONS

Table 1

Formula for calculation of concentration for the standard curve:

𝑚𝑔
𝐶1 𝑉1 (5 𝐿 )(15 𝑚𝐿) 𝑚𝑔
𝐶2 = 𝐶2 = = 3.75
𝑉2 20 𝑚𝐿 𝐿

Table 3

The slope of the standard curve was determined to be 0.0226 (mg/L)

𝐴𝑏𝑠𝑜𝑟𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 0.101 𝑚𝑔
𝐶 = = = 4.469
𝑚𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑣𝑒 0.0226 𝐿

Table 4

Natural log of Iron concentration:

𝐶𝑖𝑛 = ln(𝐶) 𝐶𝑖𝑛 = ln(4.469) = 1.497 𝑚𝑔/𝐿

Final Calculations:

The slope of the natural log concentration curve of the room temperature sample
was determined to be -0.0045

Calculation to determine the half-life:

ln(2)
𝑡1/2 = 0.0045=154min
Discussion

For anion exchange resins, thermal degradation that results in the loss of

functional groups and loss of salt splitting capacity are the most important decomposition

mechanisms. Degradation of cation exchange resins by oxidation usually determines the

lifetime of a strong acid cation exchange resin. In our experiment the degradation of ion

complex starts when iron phenanthroline is added to the solution. The degradation of ion

complex by noticing the color start to disappear to be more specific it starts when ion

complex forms a specific value of concentration and change by the effect of the

temperature over time. The temperature effect the rate of decay of a transition metal

complex ion by a lot. The higher it gets the faster the decay rate because increasing the

temperature the help the reaction to occur faster at the same time the concentration tend

to decrease. K is the rate of decay or growth, it represents the slope of the natural log

concentration curve. Half life is the time taken for the radioactivity of a specified isotope

to fall to half its original value. In other words, Is the time required for the decaying

quantity to fall to one half of its initial value, and can be written as 𝑡1/2 . The relationship

between K and half-life is inversely proportional, by decreasing the K value the half-life

increases and by increasing the K value half-life decrease. If a toxic contaminant has long

life that will affect the treatment process in way that they have to used long half-life

drugs, and will take longer to heal cumbering to short half-life toxic. From the results on

table 5, it is determined that as the temperature increase, half-life decrease and vice versa.

And therefore, the temperature does effect on the nuclear decay reactions and that affects

the way it is treated or processed. There were no errors expect the room temperature half-

life it will take much longer than expected.

Conclusion :

From this lab we learn about the half-life and how it gets effected by the change in

temperature our finding was express in table 5 format. That show how temperature effect

the half life by increasing the half-life will decrease a lot. We tested at different

temperature to obtain our result. I was wandering what will happen to the half-life if the

temperature decrease, I believe the answer for the half- life will increase because it will

take very long to the reaction to be active.