Titration

Cards (6)

  • Method
    1. Use the pipette to measure 25cm' of sodium hydroxide into the conical flask
    2. Place the conical flask on a white tile
    3. Fill the burette with sulphuric acid using a funnel
    4. Record the initial reading of acid in the burette
    5. Add a 5 drops of indicator in this case phenolphthalein to the conical flask
    6. Slowly open the burette tap while swirling the conical flask
    7. Add acid drop-by-drop near the endpoint
    8. Close the burette when a colour change occurs in phenolphthalein
    9. Record the final reading of acid in the burette and calculate the titre
    10. Repeat until you have concordant results
    11. Present results in a table and calculate the mean titre discarding any anomalies
    12. Calculate the number of moles of sodium hydroxide used in the titration
    13. Divide the moles of sodium hydroxide by 2 to find the moles of sulphuric acid
    14. Use the formula [concentration= moles/volume (mean titre volume)] to work out the concentration of sulphuric acid
  • Meniscus
    The bottom of the curved surface of a liquid in a container
  • Endpoint
    The point at which a colour change occurs in the indicator
  • Titre
    The volume of acid used to neutralise the alkali
  • Concordant results
    Results that are within 0.1cm' of each other
  • Anomaly
    A result that is significantly different from the others and should be discarded when calculating the mean