Titration Calculations: Worked example 1

A 20.0 cm3 sample of lithium hydroxide solution of unknown concentration is neutralised by 12.25 cm3 of
0.15moldm-3 sulfuric acid.

Calculate the concentration of the lithium hydroxide solution.

A solution is made by dissolving 0.40 g of solid sodium hydroxide in 250cm3 of water. It is found that 28.2 cm3 of this
solution is needed to completely neutralise a 40.0cm3 sample of ethanoic acid (CH3COOH) of unknown
concentration.

Calculate the concentration of the ethanoic acid.

Practice questions:

1. 28.0 cm3 of 0.75 moldm-3 hydrochloric acid was used to neutralise 40.0cm3 of potassium hydroxide solution. What was the
concentration of the potassium hydroxide solution?

2. 15.3 cm3 of 1.5M sodium hydroxide was used to neutralise 35.0cm 3 of nitric acid. What was the concentration of the nitric
acid?

3. A solution of hydrochloric acid is made by dissolving hydrogen chloride gas in 100.0cm 3 water. This solution neutralises a
15.0cm3 sample of 0.10 moldm-3 sodium carbonate solution. a. What mass of hydrogen chloride gas was dissolved in 100.0cm 3
of water? b. What volume of hydrogen chloride was this?
 Titration Calculations: Worked example 2

The carbonate of metal M has the formula M2CO3. A sample of M2CO3, of mass 0.394g, required the addition of
21.7cm3 of a 0.263 mol dm-3 solution of hydrochloric acid for complete reaction.

Calculate the relative formula mass of M2CO3 and therefore deduce the identity of M.
 Titration Calculations: Worked example 3

When 75.0cm3 0f 0.500 M hydrochloric acid were added to 1.25g of impure MgCO3 some acid was left unreacted.
This unreacted acid required 21.6 cm3 of a 0.500 M solution of sodium hydroxide for complete reaction.

Calculate the percentage by mass of magnesium carbonate in the impure sample.

Practice question:

1. Ammonium sulfate reacts with aqueous sodium hydroxide as shown by the equation below.

(NH4)2SO4 + 2NaOH  2NH3 + Na2SO4 + 2H2O

A sample of ammonium sulfate was heated with 100.0 cm 3 of 0.500 mol dm-3 aqueous sodium hydroxide. To ensure that all the
ammonium sulfate reacted, an excess of sodium hydroxide was used. Heating was continued until all of the ammonia had been
driven off as a gas. The unreacted sodium hydroxide remaining in the solution required 27.3cm 3 of 0.600 mol dm-3 hydrochloric
acid for neutralisation.

Calculate the mass of ammonium sulfate in the sample.