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Fill The Burette With The Sodium Hydroxide Solution Using A Funnel. Place The Beaker

This lab aims to standardize a sodium hydroxide solution by titrating it against a hydrochloric acid solution of known concentration. Students will use a burette to slowly add the NaOH to an Erlenmeyer flask containing HCl and indicator until the solution turns pink, indicating the equivalence point. Repeating this titration allows them to calculate the molarity of the NaOH based on the mole ratio of the acid-base reaction and the known concentration of HCl. Proper technique and safety are emphasized.

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Fill The Burette With The Sodium Hydroxide Solution Using A Funnel. Place The Beaker

This lab aims to standardize a sodium hydroxide solution by titrating it against a hydrochloric acid solution of known concentration. Students will use a burette to slowly add the NaOH to an Erlenmeyer flask containing HCl and indicator until the solution turns pink, indicating the equivalence point. Repeating this titration allows them to calculate the molarity of the NaOH based on the mole ratio of the acid-base reaction and the known concentration of HCl. Proper technique and safety are emphasized.

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LAB #1: Standardization of sodium hydroxide using hydrochloric acid

OBJECTIVES:

 Demonstrate proper techniques for use of the burette, pipette and volumetric flask
 Standardize a sodium hydroxide solution
 Understand the use of indicators in titration

THEORY

Hydrochloric acid reacts with sodium hydroxide forming a salt and water.
NaOH(aq) + HCl(aq) → NaCl(aq) + H2O(l)

As long as the reaction goes to completion, if one knows the following information:

 The balanced chemical equation for the reaction occurring


 The concentration of hydrochloric acid

then the exact amount of sodium hydroxide which reacts can be determined by a process called
titration. Titration describes a process where the concentration of an unknown substance is
determined by comparing it with a solution of known concentration (standard solution). In this
experiment this entails adding NaOH slowly from a burette to a known quantity of HCl. The
point at which sufficient reactant has been added to just complete the reaction is called the
equivalence point. A method to determine this visually, is to add a dye (referred to as an
indicator) that changes color at or extremely close to this point. The point at which the indicator
actually changes color is referred to as the end point.

Throughout this experiment, the NaOH solution will be placed in the burette, and the
hydrochloric acid solution will always be in the beaker. The phenolphthalein indicator is
colorless in acidic solution, and it will turn pink at the equivalence point.
SAFETY NOTES
 Eye protection must be worn at all times.
 Hydrochloric acid and sodium hydroxide are caustic and should not come in contact with
your skin or clothing. You must wear a properly buttoned up lab coat.
METHOD (One partner does 1-3 while the other does 4-6)

1. Rinse the burette with 5mL of sodium hydroxide solution.


2. Obtain 100mL of sodium hydroxide solution in a clean dry 150mL beaker.
3. Fill the burette with the sodium hydroxide solution using a funnel. Place the beaker
holding the sodium hydroxide solution under the tip of the burette. Then allow the base to
flow out the burette tip until the bottom of the meniscus is at the zero mark. This will be
the initial reading of base in the trial, record this volume in the data table. The volume
should be recorded to the nearest 0.01 mL.
4. Obtain about 100 mL of hydrochloric acid solution in a clean, dry 150 mL beaker.

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5. Obtain a 25.00 mL pipette and rinse it with about 5 mL of the standard HCl solution.
Transfer 25.00 mL of the standardized HCl solution into the Erlenmeyer flask. Add 1-2
drops of phenolphthalein indicator solution into the flask.
6. Repeat steps 4-5 for all your flasks.
7. Place a sheet of white paper under the burette. While swirling the conical flask slowly
add the sodium hydroxide from the burette until the solution in the flask turns pink. Try
to stop it at the first permanent hint of pink. Record the final volume of the burette.

RESULTS

Molarity of standardized hydrochloric acid solution: ____________________________

Trial 1 2 3
Volume of HCl delivered from the pipette (cm3)

Initial burette reading (cm3)

Volume of NaOH used in titration (cm3)

Titre

Average Titre (cm3)


EXERCISE:

1. Calculate the number of moles of acid present in the volume used.

2. Determine the number of moles of base that reacts with the number of moles of acid
calculated in 1. above.

3. Calculate the molarity of the sodium hydroxide solution.

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