{"id":5916,"date":"2023-07-24T12:01:59","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T19:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/sandbox\/?page_id=5916"},"modified":"2023-08-01T16:15:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T23:15:46","slug":"calculations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry201-202-lab-ref-manual\/appendices\/calculations\/","title":{"rendered":"Calculations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This page provides instructions for 4 common lab calculations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>converting <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry201-202-lab-ref-manual\/appendices\/calculations\/volume-to-mass\/\"><strong>volume to mass<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>calculating <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry201-202-lab-ref-manual\/appendices\/calculations\/molar-equivalents\/\"><strong>molar equivalents<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>calculating <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry201-202-lab-ref-manual\/appendices\/calculations\/yield\/\"><strong>% yield<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>calculating <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry201-202-lab-ref-manual\/appendices\/calculations\/e-factor\/\"><strong>E-factor<\/strong><\/a>, a &#8216;green chemistry&#8217; measure of experimental efficiency and waste<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Significant figures.<\/strong> Always preserve <i>insignificant figures<\/i> through all of the <em>intermediate<\/em> steps in any calculation. After you obtain your final numerical result, round it off to an appropriate number of significant figures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This page provides instructions for 4 common lab calculations: Significant figures. Always preserve insignificant figures through all of the intermediate steps in any calculation. After you obtain your final numerical result, round it off to an appropriate number of significant figures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":5906,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-parent.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5916","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry201-202-lab-ref-manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry201-202-lab-ref-manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry201-202-lab-ref-manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry201-202-lab-ref-manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry201-202-lab-ref-manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5916"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry201-202-lab-ref-manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9913,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry201-202-lab-ref-manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5916\/revisions\/9913"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry201-202-lab-ref-manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry201-202-lab-ref-manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}