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Acid-Base Titration Lab Report

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Beau Renegar
May 3rd, 2017
Acid-Base Titration Lab Report

The purpose of this lab was to determine the molarity of a sulfuric acid solution. The materials used include a buret, a pipet, two 250 mL Erlenmeyer flasks, water, phenophthalein, potassium hydroxide, and sulfuric acid. Safety concerns included working with potentially dangerous substances like sulfuric acid.

Procedure and Observations
Procedure
Data and Observations
1. Pipet 10.00 mL of the sulfuric acid solution into each of the 250-mL Erlenmeyer flasks
10.00 mL solution measured into the flasks
2. Add some water to the sulfuric acid solution to see amount in flask
Amount of water does not matter because it does not affect the moles of sulfuric acid
3. Add several drops of phenolphthalein …show more content…

Fill the buret with KOH
Filled KOH to exactly 0 mL in the buret
5. Record the volume of the buret to the nearest 0.01 mL, be careful to not overfill the buret do not refill the buret during the titration process, place the flask under the buret to be filled during the titration
Used pipets to perfectly measure out amount of solution into buret
6. Titrate slowly until a permanent pale pink color is observed(2 minutes), swirl flask gently between each additions of base to mix thoroughly, hold over white paper to see color
Poured very small amounts of base into the solution (single drops sometimes) the flask was stirred until the desired pale pink color was shown.
7. Once the solution has turned pink permanently, record the volume (to the nearest 0.01 mL) of solution in the buret
Recorded to 27.5 mL in Solution 1 and 24.7 mL in Solution 2

8. Repeat steps …show more content…

We started with a 10.00 mL of sulfuric acid solution that was pipetted into an Erlenmeyer flask. The volume and concentration of the base must be known so that we know three of the four volumes/concentrations. The base concentration was given and the volume was obtained during the experiment. The titration resulted in the two flasks having the desired pale pink color. The volume of the base was obtained using the buret. After titration with KOH, the results of the two titrations are the molarities 0.01357 M and 0.01235

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