Lab # 7: Standardization of Permanganate with Ferrous Salts

Aim
In this experiment you are asked to determine the concentration of a Potassium permanganate solution using the iron (II)
salt given.

Apparatus and Materials

Beaker (50 cm3 and 250 cm3), burette (50 cm3), pipette (10 cm3), volumetric flask (250 cm3), Erlenmeyer flasks, analytical
balance, top loading balance, measuring cylinder (250 cm3)
Iron (II) sulphate, sulphuric acid solution, potassium, permanganate solution

Procedure
1. Weigh out 0.0102 moles of ferrous sulphate into a clean, small 50 cm3 beaker using the rough (top-loading) balance.
2. Take this beaker and your workbook into the balance room. Weigh the beaker and the ferrous salt and record the weight
to the nearest 0.0001g as W1.
3. Return to your bench and gently transfer the contents of the beaker into a 250 cm3 beaker. DO NOT USE A SPATULA
TO TRANSFER THE MATERIAL.
4. Weigh the 50 cm3 again using the analytical balance (W2). The difference between the two weights gives the accurate
weight of ferrous salt in your beaker.
5. Add 50 cm3 of dilute sulphuric acid into the 250 cm3 beaker and stir into solution. Place a funnel in the neck of the
volumetric flask.
6. Pour the solution down the rod, into the funnel in the volumetric flask. Wash the beaker and the rod into the funnel and
then wash the funnel into the flask.
7. Fill the flask to just below the line, stopper it and shake well. Allow the stoppered flask to stand on the bench for a
minute or two, remove the stopper and make up the solution to the line by cautious addition of water. Stopper and shake
well again.
8. Pipette three 25 cm3 aliquots of the Fe2+ solution into titration flasks; add 50 cm3of dilute sulphuric acid from a
measuring cylinder.
9. Rinse burette and fill with permanganate solution. Titrate each flask with permanganate solution to a faint pink,
permanent endpoint.

Results and Calculations

Table 1: Preparation of Iron (II) solution
Mass of beaker + iron (II) salt (W1) (g)
 Mass of empty beaker (W2) (g)
Mass of iron (II) salt (W3) (g)
Molar mass of iron (II) salt (g/mol)
Volume of iron (II) solution prepared (cm3)
Number of moles of Iron (II) salt in the prepared volume
Molarity of Iron (II) solution (mol/dm3)

Table 2: Volume of permanganate solution required to reach endpoint

Total Volume (cm3) 1 2 3

Final Volume

Initial Volume

Total Volume used

Average Titre Volume

Calculations and Analysis

1. Write an equation for the reaction between the permanganate ion and Fe2+.
2. Calculate the number of moles of iron (II) salt in the pipetted volume.
3. Calculate the number of moles of permanganate in the average titre volume.
4. What is the molarity of permanganate solution?
5. Express the concentration of the permanganate ion in solution as gdm-3.

Discussion – Give 2 possible sources of error

Conclusion