I did a titration using potassium permanganate in water and my iron sample dissolved in sulfuric acid. I also used phosphoric acid to make the color change more visible. I found that the average volume I used was 25.7 mL, and then I found that I had used 5.14x10
-4 moles of KMnO
4. The equation I wrote out is this:
Fe
+2 + 8H
+ + MnO
4- + 5e
- Mn
+2 + 4H
2O + Fe
+3 + e
-Is that right? Or should I do 4e
- on the left and omit the electron on the right? Do I need to include the phosphoric or sulfuric acid somehow, or is that covered by the H ions?
I'm not really sure where to go from here to determine the percent of iron though, since I have the moles of KMnO
4 instead of just MnO
4-, will that alter my results?
Sorry I really have never done this before and we haven't gone over it in class so these questions might sound kind of stupid.