Complete Dataset of Acid Mixing Titration

10.5

9.5

8.5
pH

7.5

6.5

5.5
17 19 21 23 25 27 29
Volume of NaOH (mL)
 Complete Dataset of Acid Mixing Titration
10.5

10.4

10.3

10.2

10.1

10

9.9

9.8

9.7

9.6

9.5

9.4

9.3

9.2

9.1
pH

8.9

8.8

8.7

8.6

8.5

8.4

8.3

8.2

8.1

7.9

7.8

7.7

7.6

7.5
24.75 24.85 24.95 25.05 25.15 25.25 25.35 25.45 25.55 25.65 25.75 25.85 25.95 26.05 26.15 26.25 26.35 26.45 26.55 26.65 26.75 26.85 26.95 27.05 27.15 27.25 27.35 27.45
Volume of NaOH (mL)
Analysis of the graphs:
Answer these questions in a typed or handwritten document:
1. Read the guidelines for finding an endpoint manually in the Excel For Labs 1 document.
Consider these requirements while looking at the endpoint region in your graph. Discuss (in a
sentence or two each) how well suited each graph you made is to this method of endpoint
detection, and which one should be used. You do not need to actually find the endpoints for this
discussion.

The zoomed-in endpoint graph would be better suited to use this method of endpoint detection because it
will provide more precise values. When zoomed in, we are able to see more closely what each data point
of the graph is due to the more magnified gridlines, and as a result of this, the zoomed in graph allows us
to more accurately read the data points and determine what pH and mL they will correspond to.

2. The pH meter used in the CHEM 311 labs gives data to 2 decimal places, as written in the
provided data. Consider this along with the maximum precision that a buret can be used to by a
typical analytical chemist. For each of your graphs, at “printed” size and gridline density- how
“precisely” can you read a value from your graph? (i.e. to how many decimal places could you read
a value on it?) How does this compare with the precision of the raw values? Considering this, if a
student used these graphs and found the endpoint to be 26.0252 mL, would you consider their
value to have a correct and reliable precision?

The values on the regular graph can merely only be read to approximately one decimal place whereas the
values on the zoomed-in endpoint graph could be read to approximately two decimal places. This means
that if we were using the zoomed-in endpoint graph, we may be able to get the same precision as the pH
meters used in CHEM 311 labs provide. If a student were to give an endpoint value of 26.0252 though by
just looking at the graph (and not using any technology such as actually looking at the exact value of this
endpoint on excel), I would consider their value to not be as correct or have reliable precision. This is
because the zoomed in graphs themselves merely can only read to about two decimal places of precision,
so to get four decimal places of precision is quite odd. By looking at the zoomed in graph, it is reasonable
to say that the endpoint would lie in between 25.70 and 26.20 mL, with §a proximity of about 2 decimal
places. 4 decimal places is merely way more precise than the data in the graph could provide, making the
students 26.0252mL unreliable and incorrect.