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Offline cremeegg

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DESPERATE! Conc/n of HCl in titration?
« on: December 04, 2006, 11:59:08 AM »
Hi all,

This is my first question on this site and I am really confused and struggling.

Last week I did a titration with 0.1 M HCl in the burette and Na2CO3 diluted in water (1,4473g) in the beaker.

I did 3 titrations and discovered that it took on average 28.5ml of HCl to neutralise the Na2CO3.

After the lab we had to do some calculations and this is where I am stuckā€¦. The question says:

If the average titre is v mL, and the (still unknown) conc/n of HCl is X mol L-1, then the amount of HCl added is;
v/1000 x X mol

The amount of Na2CO3 in each titration is mass Na2CO3 in each flask/RMM Na2CO3

So

X =2000 x mass/v x RMM

Complete the cal of the conc of HCl expressing the measured conc as the average conc plus or minus the range.

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I inputted my figures in and got 0.92 mol L-1 but now I have NO idea what to do regarding this range average and measured concentration.  Does anyone have any idea what this means??

I would REALLY appreciate some help, thankyou

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Re: DESPERATE! Conc/n of HCl in titration?
« Reply #1 on: December 04, 2006, 05:54:32 PM »
you did three titrations so you have three values

giving the range means giving the largest and smallest value (or the difference between them)
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Re: DESPERATE! Conc/n of HCl in titration?
« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2006, 05:10:40 PM »
the most logical thing you can do... calculate the average conc with the 3 values and later compare it with the max and min values of that concentration

I hope this can be useful    ;D

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