Expirement 6

Determination of The Ionization Constant of a Weak Acid

Omari McDuffey
3/24/2014



















Purpose
The purpose of this experiment was to determine the ionization constant and molecular weight of
an unknown acid




















Summary
For the Determination of The Ionization Constant of a Weak Acid
, I received many different readings, for the first trial we had to weighted out as close to
.4 grams as we could of the KHP and we got several different molarities for each like.1009
,.1309 and .0974. our readings were a little low so when we tried to calculate the molarity against
22 grams of NaOH we recied4.8 grams. After which we used to titrate and received a molecular
weight of 197.25 for our unknown acid. Errors that could have been made in our experiment
could have been putting too many grams of our unknown acid in the titrate which could lead to
really skewed numbers