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Offline FLgirl

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What is the percent purity?
« on: October 05, 2012, 04:22:39 AM »
A 0.85 g sample of commercial lye (containing NaOH and other inert ingredients) is dissolved in water and titrated with 37.00 ml of 0.525 M HCl. What is the percent purity (mass of NaH/mass of sample x 100) of the lye sample?

Please just help me answer so I can turn in my lab report.. I will learn how to calculate it when I am not so stressed in my personal life. (hopefully soon) I can't focus on schoolwork without feeling super anxious so yes I'm doing the irresonsible thing and want the answer to 1 question so I don't fail lab.
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Re: What is the percent purity?
« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2012, 04:31:14 AM »
What is the reaction equation?

See http://www.titrations.info/titration-calculation for the explanation of how to find amount if titrated substance. Then it is just converting moles to mass and plugging it into the formula given.
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Re: What is the percent purity?
« Reply #2 on: October 05, 2012, 04:31:36 AM »
Start by writing a balanced equation for the titration reaction. From that, can you see how to calculate the amount of NaOH present in the sample?
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