Acid Base Titrations with Chemical Indicator

Submitted by: Calin McCool

PArter: Andy Quillen
Date Submitted: 10/10/13
Purpose: To use acid base titration to find the concentration of an unknown acid solution. Another
purpose is to learn how to use burets for titration, and to find how many moles of acid are by knowing
how many moles of base there is.
Procdure: Andy: Swirled the Erlenmeyer flask
Measured the acid that we added to the flask and added it
CAlin: Filled the buret
Emptied the buret into the flask
Cleaned the equipment between rounds
Added indicator
Part II: Titration of NaOH
Our concentration of NaOH was .1458M
Initial Volume
NaOH
final volume
NaOH
volume NaOH
used
Moles NaOH
used
Concentration
HCL
98mL 85.85mL 12.15mL .083m NaOH 8.3M
85.85mL 71.85mL 14mL .096 mole 9.6 M
71.85 mL 59.95 mL 11.9 mL .082 mole 8.2 M

Average concentration HCl : 8.7M SD:1.4

Part III:
Initial Volume
NaOH
final volume
NaOH
volume NaOH
used
Moles NaOH
used
Concentration
H2SO4
100.ml 89.58 mL 10.42 mL .099 mol 9.9M
89.58mL 79.25 ml 10.33 ml .072 mol 7.2M
79.25 ml 68.95 ml 10.3 mL .072 mol 7.2M

Average Concentration H2SO4: 8.1M SD: 2.7
Conclusion:
For this experiment, Andy and I shared the responsibility of titrating the known base into the
unknown acid. We were told which indicator to use, which was phenolphthalein, which is a very good
indicator. A key factor for this being a good indicator is that it turns bright pink when indicating
We should go to 2 digits after the decimal point to ensure some accuracy. The standard deviation does
not support that many digits.