Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Titrations Lab

We ran a lab this week similar to the one before, but this time to find the molar mass of an unknown acid. For this lab, we titrate an acid we are given to as I said before, find the molarity of it. First to start the lab, we had to standardize the base solution, so I weighed about 0.2g, added it to a Erlenmeyer flask by rinsing it with diluted water, added about 100mL of diluted water, added 2 drops of indicator, and  finally titrated it until it turned pink. We did this twice and averaged the two for our calculations. When the solution turns pink, we know that all of the KHP had been reacted. Next, we did the same thing by titrating the unknown acid that we had to weigh. Finding the molarity in the first two and solving for just the moles of HA is what was then used for more calculations. 
Here are some pictures from the lab:



Blame isn't really being assigned to anyone, but my lab partner and I (mostly her) broke and erlenmeyer flask. #chemfails :/

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