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 Experiment No 4
Title ACID BASED TITRATION I

DETERMINATION OF PERCENT CONTENT

OF ACETIC ACID IN VINEGAR

Name MUHAMMAD AKMAL SYAHMIE BIN BAHARIN

Student ID 2018231856

Course AS120

Group RAS1204A

Date of Experiment 20/4/2020

Date of Submission 12/5/2020

Lecturer’s Name DR. JEYASHELLY ANDAS

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EXPERIMENT 4
ACID BASED TITRATION I

1. State the objective of the experiment.

To determine the content percent of acetic acid in vinegar.

 2. Describe the procedure to determine acetic acid in vinegar (in brief).

1. Use pipette 10 mL of the given vinegar (record the brand name of the chosen
vinegar) and dilute to mark with distilled water in a 100 mL volumetric flask.
2. Then pipette 20 mL of this diluted vinegar solution into a 250 mL conical flask.
Add 2 – 3 drops of phenolphthalein as an indicator.
3. Titrate the vinegar in the conical flask with the NaOH from the burette slowly
while shaking the flask until the indicator changes color.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 two more times.
5. Record your reading at the end point of the titration.
6. Calculate the w/v % of acetic acid in the vinegar sample.

3. Results / Data

A. Standardization of NaOH solution

Titration Rough 1 2 3
Final burette reading 21.60 21.50 42.50 21.65
Initial burette reading 0.00 0.00 21.00 0.00
Volume of NaOH used 21.60 21.50 21.50 21.65

Average volume of NaOH:

21.55mL
Exact molarity of HCl solution from Experiment 3: 0.1 M

B. Determination of acetic acid in vinegar

Brand of vinegar used: Mudim

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Table 3.2: Titration of vinegar with NaOH

Titration 1 2 3 4
Final burette reading 21.40 42.90 21.50 43.10
Initial burette reading 0.00 21.40 0.00 21.50
Volume of NaOH used 21.40 21.50 21.50 21.60
Average volume of NaOH: 21.50 mL

4. Questions

a) Write a balanced equation for the reaction between NaOH and HCl.

- NaOH + HCl NaCl + H2O

b) Using the data above and the stoichiometric ratio from the equation, calculate the
exact molarity of the NaOH solution.

c) Write the chemical equation for the reaction between acetic acid (CH3COOH) and
NaOH solution.

- CH3COOH + NaOH CH3COONa + H2O

d) Determine the w/v % of acetic acid in the vinegar sample.

i) Using (MaVa / MbVb) = a/b, determine the molarity of the diluted acetic acid.
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ii) In the procedure 10 mL of the original vinegar has been diluted to 100 mL
Calculate the molarity of the concentrated (original) vinegar. (M 1V1=M2V2)

iii) Calculate the mass of acetic acid (MW 60 g/mol) and then calculate % w/v
of acetic acid in the vinegar sample.

% w/v = mass of acetic acid x 100

volume of sample

e) Explain why you need to standardize NaOH solution after preparation.

- Solid NaOH is very hygrocospic and contains many impurities. It is also

difficult to measure out concentrated HCl with any accuracy. We don’t know
the exact composition of the solid NaOH or the exact concentration of the
HCL solution. Thus it is necessary to use another approach to determine the
concentrations of the standard solutions. After that we can accurately
determine the HCl concentration.

f) In this experiment HCl solution from Experiment 3 is used as a secondary

standard solution to standardize NaOH solution. Define secondary standard
solution.

- A secondary standard solution is a chemical term that refers to a solution that

has its concentration measured by titration with a primary standard solution.
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g) Draw a titration curve for the titration between acetic acid (CH3COOH) and NaOH
solution.

5. Conclusion

- In conclusion, we are able to determine the content percent of acetic acid in

vinegar.