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What are the three stages to titration?

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  • Filling the burette
  • Filling the pipette
  • Titration process
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Describe the first stage of titration:

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  • Wash the burette first with water and then acid
  • Fill burette (with X) using a filter funnel on the floor
  • Remove the bubble
  • Remove filter funnel and set meniscus to zero
  • Record intial reading (0.00)
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Describe the second stage of titration:

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  • Put pipette filler onto pipette
  • Expel air from filler and suck up (acid/alkali) to the meniscus
  • put acid/alkali into conical flask on a white tile
  • add 4 drops of phenolphthalein indicator
  • swirl together
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Describe the third stage of titration:

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  • Add acid/alkali to the conical flask from the burette whilst constantly swirling
  • When signs as to a colour change begin, start dripping the acid/alkali into the flask
  • Stop adding acid when there is a colour change
  • Record the final value on the burette
  • Substract the inital value from the final value
  • Repeat the experiment
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What are the names of the values calculated during titrations?

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titre values (final titre-initial titre)

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What is done with the titre values once collected?

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A mean titration value is calculated by ignoring the first titre value and using only those which are concordant (within 0.10 ml of eachother)

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What is the titre?

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Volume of liquid in the burette

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Why is the first titre value never used when calculating a mean?

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To reduce inaccuracy as it is only a rough value

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How do you calculate the moles?

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Concentration x volume

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What is volume measured in?

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dm^3

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How is the concentration calculated in g/dm^3?

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Relative molecular mass x concentration in mol/dm^3

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What is the relationship between titre value and the type of acid?

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Doubling the number of hydrogen ions (in the acid), halves the titre value

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What are the four common errors in titration experiments?

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  • Not swirling the conical flask
  • Not removing the filter funnel before dispensing liquid from burette
  • Not removing the bubble below the tap
  • Paralax error
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Why is not swirling the conical flask an error in titration?

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Because the swirling mixes the hyrogen ions and hydroxide ions to allow the even spread of the reaction otherwise the titre value increases

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Why is not removing the filter funnel an error in titration?

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Because some acid will remain on the funnel and drip into the burette, increasing the titre value.

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Why is not removing the bubble an error in titration?

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Because some acid will be used to fill the bubble, increasing the titre value

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Why is a paralax error an error in titration?

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Readings should be taken at eye level and the burrette should be perpendicuar else the titre value will be skewed.

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What is the type of pipette used in titrations?

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Bulb pipette

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What is the fixed volume of a bulb pipette?

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25.0 cm^3

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What does a mole signify?

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The number of particles present

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What is the maximum volume for a burette?

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50.0 cm^3

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How is uncertainty calculated in a titration?

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Range/2

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What is a salt?

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A compound where a metal ion replaces a hydrogen ion

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What does soluble mean?

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Dissolves in water

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What are the soluble bases?
- Group 1 metal hydroxide/oxide/carbonate | - Ammonium hydroxide
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What are the insoluble bases?
- Group 2 or 3 hydroxide/oxide/carbonate | - transition metal hydroxides/oxides/carbonates
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What is aqueous ammonia?
Ammonium hydroxide
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What happens to ammonia in water?
It reacts to make ammonium hydroxide
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Describe the method by which a neutralisation experiment is carried out to obtain salt crystals:
- Measure hydrochoric acid into beaker and gently warm with Bunsen burner - remove beaker from heat and add a spatula full of coper oxide to acid and stir until it is in excess - pour solution into new beaker through funnel with filter paper to remove excess CuO - pour this filtrate into an evaporating basin and place basin on top of a water bath - evaporate half the water and check for crystallisation point, using a cold glass stirring rod - cool and allow to crystalise. pat crystals dry between two peices of filter paper
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Why is an acid heated before adding the base?
To increase the solubility of the acid so it is easier for it to dissolve the base
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Why is the base put in excess into the acid?
So that all of the acid reacts
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Why are the reactants stirred?
So they can mix
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Why is the solution filtered?
To obtain the salt solution (filtrate)
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Why is the solution put in an evaporting basin on a water bath?
To evaporate the water from the salt solution
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Why is the crystallisation point checked?
As the crystallosation point exists when the solution is saturated
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What does allowing the evaporated filtrate to cool do?
Allows crystals to form - slower cooling = larger crystals
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Why must sulfuric acid be heated gently?
- for safety as it is highly corrosive | - when overheated, sulfur dioxide released would be harmful to lungs if inhaled
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What does in excess mean?
Greater mass of the reactant than is necessary to react completely with the limiting reagent
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State the law of the conservation of mass
No atoms are made or lost during a reaction
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What is a redox reaction?
Acid + Metal = Metal Salt + Hydrogen
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What is a neutralisation reaction?
Acid + Alkali = Salt + Water
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Why is a pipette used in a titration?
As it delivers a fixed volume of liquid
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Why is a burette used in a titration?
As it delivers a variable volume (ranges 0.05 to 50 cm^3)
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Why is a conical flask used in a titration?
It is used whilst swirling liquid to avoid spills
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Why must an indicator like universal indicator not be used in a titration?
As universal indicator gives a gradual colour change and the indicator in a titration must give a sharp colour change
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What colour is methyl orange in acid? Alkali?
Acid-orange | Alkali-yellow
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What colour is phenolphthalein in acid? Alkali?
Acid- colourless | Alkali - purple
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Define strong acid:
completely ionises when in an aqueous solution
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Define weak acid:
partially ionises when in an aqueous solution
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Define concentrated:
a large number of particles per unit volume
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Define dilute:
A small number of particles per unit volume
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What is a base?
A proton acceptor
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What is an acid?
A proton donor
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What is a strong base?
A base which completely ionises in an aqueous solution
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What is a weak base?
A base which partially ionises in an aqueous solution
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Why is the maximum temperature increase higher when a more concentrated solution is used compared to the same overall moles at a slower addition rate?
Because the number of moles reacting is the same but the total volume is less
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After a substance is added in excess, why does the temperature of the reaction decrease?
Because the cool/cooler substance absorbs energy and lowers the temperature
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Why would the alkali be added in excess in a neutralisation reaction?
To ensure all the acid is used up
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What are reasons as to why the yield of a reaction isn't 100%?
- reaction does not go to completion - competing reactions which could be unexpected - loss of material when transferring products or separating them - reaction is reversible
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How are salt crystals obtained from a solution?
- evaporate half the water | - leave to crystallise
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What is the empirical formula?
The simplest whole number ratio of the elements in a compound
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What is the molecular formula?
The total numbr of elements in a compound
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Why is low atom economy not usually profitable?
- means more raw materials are needed which may be more expensive - inefficient way of using raw materials which can be non-renewable - reactions produce more waste which can be expensive to get rid of
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What can be done to increase the profitablity of low atom economy?
selling the waste/bi products of the reaction
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What do high atom economy reactions tend to be ? Explain this
Sustainable - they use up as little of the earth's resources as possible and put as few chemicals into the envirnoment
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What is the theoretical yield?
The maximum mass of a product you would get if all the reactants form the desired products and none of the products are lost
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How do you calculate moles of anything?
mass/Mr
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How do you calculate the moles of a gas?
voulme/24
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What does mass equal?
Mr x mol
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What is the law to do with gases in equal amounts?
Equal amounts (in moles) of gases occupy the same volume under the same conditions of temperature and pressure
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What is the volume of one mole of any gas at room temperature and pressure?
24 dm^3
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What is relative formula mass?
the sum of all the relative atomic masses of all the atoms in the compound
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How is the uncertainty of a measurement reduced?
By repeating it and calculating a mean
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What is the limiting reactant?
the reactant that is completely used up in the reaction
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Why do the products after heating a metal have a greater mass than that of the initial metal?
- one or more of the reactants is a gas - all the products are solids, liquids or aqeuous - particles in a gas move around and fill the space they are in - so before the reaction, gas is floating in the air but does not add to the mass of the metal - when the gas reacts to form part of the product, the particles become contained inside the reaction vessel so the total mass of the reaction vessel increases
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Define acid:
Something which produces hydrogen ions in an aqeous solution
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What is the advantage of a burette?
It can deliver a variable volume of a liquid
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