Calculating molarity of HCl and Vinegar through titration.

Titration is the precise addition of a solution in a buret into a measured volume of a sample
solution (Jenkins et al., 1996). The purpose of this lab is to calculate the molarity a solution
of HCl and a solution of acetic acid by titrating them with NaOH. In this lab the
experimenters took 10 mL of an unknown concentration of HCl with 3 drops of
phenolphthalein in a 250 mL erlenmeyer flask and a burette tube filled with 50 ml of 0.500M
NaOH, and slowly dispensed the NaOH into the flask. The dispension was halted when (for
the experimenters case) the flask turned into a magenta color permanently even after swirling.
This process was done three times and all the results were recorded on the given table. Then
the experimenters duplicated the previous process with the only difference being that they
used an acetic acid solution instead of an HCl solution. The molarity of HCl was 0.500M.
The molarity of vinegar was 0.985M. The percentage composition of vinegar was 5.91%. The
molarity of the vinegar was off by 0.485 and this was due possibly due to the misreading of
the buret tube and the fact that the experimenters added way over the endpoint while titrating
CH3COOH with NaOH₃. Also the undried flask probably had part in this error. The
percentage composition of the experimenters sample results meets the legal specification of
greater than 4% by mass of acetic acid.

References
Jenkins, F., van Kessel, H., Tompkins, D., Lantz, O. Chemistry, BC Edition; Nelson Canada:
Toronto, 1996; p-782.