- Purpose
- To find the pH and Concentration of an everyday acid.
- Procedure
- If a solid, crush the candy and dissolve it in 50.0ml of water
- If need be filter it afterwards
- Titrate 10ml samples of acid with 0.10M NaOH three times
- Use titration data to find [acid] and pH
- If a solid, crush the candy and dissolve it in 50.0ml of water
- Materials
- Citric acid (Chemical compound goes here)
- NaOH
- Beaker
- Graduated cylinder
- Phenolphthalein
- Data
- 61g of citric acid (H3C6H5O7)
- 10M NaOH
Trial # | Trial 1 | Trial 2 | Trial 3 |
Volume initial | 50ml | 50ml | 50ml |
Volume final | 47.3ml | 46.4ml | 46.7ml |
Neutralization vol | 2.7ml | 3.6ml | 3.3ml |
- Neutralization vol average = 3.2ml
- Calculations
- 61g * 1 mol/192g = 2.40*10-2 mol
- 40*10-2 mol * 1/3.2*10-3 L = [7.50M] Citric acid
- pH= -log[7.50M] pH= 0.88
- Conclusion
- Citric acid is pinkish in color
- The pH of H3C6H5O7 is 0.88 and its concentration in a 10ml solution is 7.50M