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Offline Anon

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Molar Concentration Help
« on: April 04, 2007, 03:15:21 PM »
A 0.397 g sample of KHC8H4O4 (molar mass=204.44 g/mol)  is dissolved w/ 50mL of deionized water in a 125mL flask.  It is titrated to the phenolphthalein endpoint w/ 16.22 mL of a NaOH solution.  What is the molar concentration of the NaOH?

I know that M=n/VL.  What I don't know is how to correctly set up the problem. 
Through various calculations and formulas I came with an answer of .01197 M NaOH.  Is there someone that could double check to see if my answer is correct?

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Re: Molar Concentration Help
« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2007, 03:44:41 PM »
almost correct; an order of magnitude too low.

The correct answer is 0.120 M to be precise (3 significant figures: 0.397 g was your starting weight)

0.397 g / 204.44 g/mol = 1.94 . 10-3 mol
1.94 . 10-3 mol / 16.22 . 10-3 l = 0.120 mol / l

Of course assumed that the KHC8H4O4 fully dissociates into K+ and  HC8H4O4-

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