Titrations Lab

(Rough Draft)
Ananya Nair and Dhruvi Patel
Teacher: Mr. Blackwell
Period 3
Problem: When 10.0 mol/L of NaOH(aq) is required to neutralise 10.0mL of HCl(aq) with
HCl(aq) having an unknown concentration, what concentration of HCl is needed(aq)?

Materials:

● 1x 250mL Erlenmeyer flask

● 2x 100mL beaker
● 1x 250mL beaker
● 1x 10mL volumetric pipette
● 1x buret
● 1x buret stand
● 1x buret clamp
● 1x pipette bulb
● 1x funnel
● 1x bottle phenolphthalein indicator
● 1x bottle of distilled water to rinse equipment
● 1x waste bucket
● 80mL 0.10M NaOH(aq)
● 100mL 0.10M HCL(aq)
Diagram of Experimental Setup
Table 1: Quantitative Observations of the Initial Volume and Final Volume of NaOH(aq) in
the buret at a concentration of 0.10 mol/L NaOH before and after the addition to 10.00mL
of HCl(aq) from a pipette (±0.04mL) per each trial.
Trial # Initial volume of NaOH(aq) Final volume of NaOH(aq)
(± 0.05 mL) (± 0.05 mL)

1 0.70 15.00

2 10.30 24.50

3 24.50 38.90

4 22.60 36.90

Table 2: Qualitative Observation of Colour of HCl(aq) Solution Before and After Titrating
with 0.10M NaOH(aq) Using Phenolphthalein Indicator.
Trial # Colour of HCl solution Colour of HCl solution
Before Titration after Titration with 0.10M
NaOH(aq)

1 Colourless Pink

2 Colourless Light Pink

3 Colourless Light Pink

4 Colourless Light Pink

Analysis:

1. Volume of NaOH (aq) used per trial:

- Sample calculation (ex. Trial 1)
Vused = Vfinal − Vinitial
Vused = 15.00 mL − 0.70 mL
Vused = 14.30 ml

- Uncertainty Calculations
AU = RU1 + RU2
AU = ±0.5mL + ±0.5mL
AU = ±0.10mL

- Final Answer
 14.30 ± 0.10 mL

Table 3: Volume Used of 0.10M NaOH(aq) to Titrate HCl(aq) Per Trial

Trial # Volume used from buret (± 0.10 ml)

1 14.30

2 14.20

3 14.40

4 14.30

Note on Outliers:

As a collective individual, we came to the conclusion that we would still account for the
first trail to our analysis even though the final color came to be dark pink (as shown in
table #2). The volume of the base is still in line with the other trials .This is due to only
being one drop off of the actual perfect titrant.

2. Average volume of NaOH (aq) used:

- Average calculations
𝑠𝑢𝑚 𝑜𝑓 𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑚𝑒 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙
Vaverage = 𝑛𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑠
(14.30 + 14.20 + 14.40 + 14.30)𝑚𝐿
V average = 4
V average = 14.30 mL

- Uncertainty of average volume calculations

0.10 + 0.10 + 0.10 +0.10
AU average = 4
AU average = ± 0.10mL

- Final answer
V average = 14.30 ± 0.10 mL

3. Initial Concentration of HCl(aq):

- Reaction equation
HCl (aq) + NaOH (aq) → H2O (l) + NaCl (aq)
 - Concentration Calculation
0.10 𝑚𝑜𝑙 𝑁𝑎𝑂𝐻 (𝑎𝑞) 1 𝑚𝑜𝑙 𝐻𝐶𝑙 (𝑎𝑞) 1
[HCl] = 0. 0143 𝐿 × 1𝐿
× 1 𝑚𝑜𝑙 𝑁𝑎𝑂𝐻 (𝑎𝑞)
× 0.010 𝐿

- Tentative Answer:
[HCl] = 1.43 mol/L

4. Uncertainty calculations on concentration of HCl(aq):

- Uncertainty of average volume of NaOH(aq)
0.10𝑚𝐿
RUvol. NaOH = 14.30𝑚𝐿
RUvol. NaOH = 0.0069…

- Uncertainty of volume of HCl(aq)

0.04𝑚𝐿
RUvol. HCl = 10.00𝑚𝐿
RUvol. HCl = 0.004

- Total uncertainty of HCl(aq) concentration

RU Total = RUvol. NaOH + RUvol. HCl
RU Total = 0.0069… + 0.004
RU Total = 0.01099300699
AU[HCl] = RUTotal × [HCl]
AU[HCl] = 0.01099300699 × 1.43 = 0.01572 mol/L

Final answer for concentration of HCl: (aq)

[HCl] = 1.430 ± 0.016 mol/L

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