Titration is used to find the volume of an unknown solution that is required to neutralize a solution of known concentration. The titre value can be used to calculate the concentration of the unknown solution. In this experiment, B1 is a solution containing a mixture of sodium carbonate and sodium chloride. A simple titration using methyl! orange indicator is conducted to determine the percentage by mass of sodium carbonate in the mixture. The equation for the neutralization reaction is Na;CO3 (aq) + 2HCI (aq) > 2NaCl (aq) + CO2(g) + H20 (1) The colour change of the indicator signals the end-point of the reaction. ¢ Al—0.1mol dm? HCI * B1-—solution containing 60g dm? of NayCO;/NaClI mixture (key 10 unknown) ¢ methyl! orange indicator © 250 cm’ graduated flask © 25cm’ pipette © two 50 cm’ burette © three 250 cm’ conical flasks © funnel 1. Using a burette, place 30.00 cm’ of B1 ina 250 cm’ graduated flask. Make up the contents of the flask to the mark with distilled water and label this solution B2. 2. Place Al in a second burette. Scanned with CamScanner25 cm’ of B2 required 3. Pipette 25 cm? of B2 into a conical flask, add 2 drops of methy! orange : indicator and titrate with A1 until the solution changes from yellow to orange/red. . 4 ee titration as many times necessary to obtain accurate results, Table 1: Dilution of BI Table 2: Titration of B2 with AI r Rough Accurate | i | Final burette reading/cm* | Initial burette reading/em’ Volume of Al used/em? _ cm? of AJ for neutralization. 1 2. 3 4 ss 6, 7. . How many moles of HC] are used in the titration? . Find the number of moles of NayCO} in 25 cm’ of B2. . Calculate the number of moles of NazCO; in the 250 cm’ of B2. . Calculate the concentration, in mol dm”, of Na,CO; in B1. Calculate the concentration, in g dm”, of NazCO; in BI. Calculate the percentage by mass of NayCQ, in B1. Comment on the use of methyl orange as the indicator in this experiment. Scanned with CamScanner