Sodium Thiosulphate Reaction Time Experiment

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Introduction:

In the investigation I am going to see how long it takes for sodium thiosulphate to react with hydrochloric acid, the sodium thiosulphate will be diluted with water, I will do this by having 60 ml sodium thiosulphate and 40 ml water but each time I will change the amount of sodium thiosulphate and water but they will both add up to equal 100ml, I will know when the reaction has taken place because the beaker with the chemicals in will go cloudy, we will put the beaker on a piece of paper with a x on it. When the beaker goes cloudy the x will disappear and that is when I will stop the time and record my results on a table, I will repeat this for each time that I do the experiment.

Collision theory:

Particles can only react if they collide with enough energy for a reaction, this is called the collision theory there are four factors that can change the rate of a chemical reaction between particles these are: temperature, energy, surface area and the use of a suitable concentration. Increasing the temperature will cause the particles to move faster and with more energy this will speed up the reaction because the particles will collide more often. Increasing the concentration of the reactant means that there are more particles in the reaction so there will be more collisions. Using a powder instead of a solid means the concentration is greater which means there is a greater area of the reaction so the particles can move faster.

Word equations:

Na2 So3 + 2HCI = 2Na C1 + H2O + So2 +S

Sodium thiosulphate + hydrochloric acrid = sodium chloride + water +

Sulphur dioxide + sulphur

Equipment:

Beaker:

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...r that the solution is in to go cloudy. I could of improved my experiment by doing all of the tests on the same day, this would help the test be more fair as the room temperature would be the same and would not alter the results of the experiment. I could of also instead of using a peice of paper with a x on it used a single beam of light that would go through the solution and then when the beaker went cloudy then i would no longer of been able to see the light, i could also have put a light sensor above the beaker so that when the light stops coming through the solution then it would stop the stopwatch automaticly. This would result in my test being more accurate as as soon as the light stops coming through the time would stop without delay but with doing this manualy there would of been a small ammount of time that would pass before the stopwatch could be stoped.

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