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Peter Fenger
Experiment 10.2
Acid/Base Titration
I. Purpose
The purpose of this experiment is to better understand titration. Titration is a process of slowly reacting
a base of unknown concentration with an acid of known concentration until enough has been added to
react with all of the base. Basically, by reacting these two special types of elements we try to figure out
how much acid it will take to react perfectly with a base (or vice versa). This is very similar to the
stoichiometry experiment we did in module six this time dealing with only acids and bases.
II. Hypothesis
If a scientist takes a base with unknown concentration, and titrates it with an indicator and an acid
having a known concentration, then that scientist will be able to determine the concentration of the
base.
III.Materials and Supplies
Eye dropper
Mass scale
Distilled Water (you will need at least 100 mL of it)
Totally blank white sheet of paper
Stirring rod
6-10 cabbage leaves
2 Large Beakers
flame or stove for heating
graduated cylinder
clear ammonia solution (cannot be colored)
clear vinegar (cannot be colored)
safety goggles
a stopwatch
IV. Procedure
1. Rinse your beakers, graduated cylinders, spoons, medicine droppers, and anything else you
hope to use for the experiment with distilled water to avoid contamination.
2. Put your cabbage leaves in the small beaker and fill it with about 70 mL of distilled water, if
you are using a pot add three times more distilled water.
3. Boil the cabbage and water for about 3 minutes
4. Allow the beaker to cool and then carefully remove the leaves from the beaker
5. Use your graduated cylinder to add 10.0 mL of the clear ammonia to the beaker
6. Add 90.0 mL of distilled water to the beaker as well and stir the solution.
7. Add a little less than half of the indicator (the cabbage) to the beaker