Titration Lab Report Essay

The purpose of experiments was to determine the concentration of sodium hydroxide by titrating with KHP and to determine the concentration of Acetic Acid by titrating with a known concentration of sodium hydroxide solution. The titrant is the solution with a known concentration that is titrated to the another solution with an unknown concentration to determine the molarity of the second solution. The analyte is a substance which is examined by analytical procedure; the properties of that solution are measured. In the first reaction the titrant was KHP and the analyte was NaOH, in the second one the titrant was NaOH and the analyte acetic acid.
The first reaction was NaOH + KHP -> NaHP + H2O.
The second reaction was NaOH + CH3COOH -> CH3COONa + H2O

However, there is no color change at end point of these reactions, so an indicator had to be added into the solutions to indicate the end point. An indicator is a chemical which is used to indicate the presence of the another substance in the solution; it changes colors when the ions H+ are added or removed by dissociation reaction. In this experiment, phenolphthalein was used as an indicator to indicate the presence of base in a solution by changing the color of the solution from colorless into pink. When the concentration of H+ is low, the solution becomes pink, and when the concentration of ions H+ is high, it becomes clear. The equivalent point is determined when there is a color change from colorless into light pink, and it is also an approximation of the end point. The concentrations were calculated by the equation M1V1 = M2V2, which means that the moles number of the base must equal to the moles number of an acid. The mole ratio in these reactions are 1:1 that means the moles’ number of the first reactant is equal to the moles’ number of the second one at the end