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Titration Lab

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Introduction This report, discusses how the concentration of a substance can be found through titration. A titration is where a substance with a known concentration is tested with a substance that has an unknown concentration to find that concentration (What Is a Titration). Titrations are very important in the food industry. It is important to know the concentration of an ingredient or chemical especially when it comes to nutrition facts and labels for a particular product. Scientists use titrations to figure out the nutrients that are in food items. Titrations can determine the contents of fats, carbohydrates and even proteins. This can help people know what is right to put in their bodies and what is not. This can also prevent false advertisement …show more content…

Put 0.25 g of baking soda in the erlenmeyer flask with 20 mL of distilled water and add drops of bromothymol blue (as many as it takes to make the solution blue). Fill the burette with HCL and record the starting point. Then titrate the solution until it turns a light yellow and stays. Lightly shake the solution while titrating it. In the experiment it may be helpful to use pH strips to see when the solution is done. After the solution turns yellow or is neutral on a PH strip record the ending point and figure out how many mL of HCL it took to titrate the solution. Do this three times and take the …show more content…

When measuring out things such as the KHP, baking soda or even the vinegar trying to get the substance to an exact number is bad. This could make a person measure poorly but making them see what they want to see on a scale and not actually what they are seeing. Another weakness with measuring is during this lab, it would have been helpful to clean the scale off and make sure there were no leftovers on the scale that could make the measurements wrong. With weaknesses always comes strengths. Some good things in this lab was doing the test at least three times. This allowed the data to be more accurate than it would be with only one test. Another strength was being safe while using chemicals that are more dangerous such as HCL. That helped these tests run smoothly. Titrating can be very important in nutrition. Knowing what is on the market and food that is truthful on the labels can help make people healthier. In this particular lab, the baking soda and HCL and baking soda concentrations were off while the vinegar and the NaOH were very close to what they should have been. This can suggest that if the baking soda and HCL were on the market they could have been being falsely advertised. Titrations can help prevent these false advertisements from reaching the buying and selling markets to help people stay healthier and happier. Research

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