Investigation
How does the concentration of the sodium thiosulfate affect the rate of reaction to hydrochloric acid?
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Aim:
In my investigation I am trying to find out how the rate of reaction between sodium thiosulfate and hydrochloric acid gets affected but the concentration of the thiosulfate.
Prediction:
My prediction is that the increased concentration of the thiosulfate will in turn lead to an increase in the rate of reaction. This is a well informed prediction as I know that one of the factors that speeds up rates of reaction is the increasing of the substrate, this
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The way in which the preliminary's helped was so I could try out different concentrations and different volumes to work out which ones would produce the most accurate and widely spread results I could manage. The final way they helped is a simple one, the got me used to doing the experiment so by the time I needed to do my real results and real experiment I could get everything ready, start and finish quite fast and accurately.
Initial method:
My initial method was as follows:
Preparation:
First I made sure that I had prepared the equipment required and has checked to see if they were all working and reliable, making sure not to have forgotten anything. Then I made sure to fully protected my eyes and face by then putting some safety goggles on.
The next bit of preparation was to mark the cross on the piece of paper, I did this with a biro which was the thinest pen I could find, this meant that the cross i drew was as accurate as possible.
I then boiled a kettle it make boiling water which i was going to put in the conical flask later on. After that I started to make the concentration of the sodium thiosulfate by mixing it with the correct volume of water in the measuring cylinder
The actual test:
All I had to do now was to add the concentration of sodium thiosulfate to the hydrochloric acid
At the exact same time as the above step happens I start the stopwatch.
Making sure that the conical flask is directly on-top of the cross
Then in the last test tube fill it up with 5ml of sodium sulphate. Then after that carefully pour the sodium carbonate solution into the test tube labelled copper chloride solution examining the result and recording appropriately.
thiosulfate anion needed to react with each mole of hypochlorite anion in the bleach sample.
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8. The Hydrochloric Acid was carefully poured into the beaker with the Sodium Thiosulfate. Once the liquids had made contact, three seconds were waited until the stop watch was started.
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Reaction Rates of Sodium Thiosulphate and Hydrochloric Acid at Various Concentrations Introduction/ plan ------------------ I am experimenting into the reaction rates of Sodium Thiosulphate and Hydrochloric acid when under different concentrations. Both Sodium Thiosulphate and Hydrochloric acid are clear solutions but when they react together they produce a cloudy solution, the solution become so cloudy you cannot see through it. To measure the rate of reaction I am going to print off a cross from the computer onto a piece of paper, place it under the beaker with the solution in it and record the time taken for the cross not to be visible. The Symbol equation for my experiment is:
the ‘cross’ must be kept the same. The easiest way to do this is to
Hypothesis: If the temperature of the sodium thiosulfate is increased, then the time it takes the precipitate to form will decrease therefore leading to the rate of reaction to increase as well. This can be explained as the temperature increases, the particles in the molecule will be moving more rapidly and hence as they move quicker, they will be colliding with other particles more frequently and with more energy. This energy will likely overcome the activation energy barrier and break the initial bonds and therefore produce a successful reaction and due to the increase in frequency of collisions, the time it takes the precipitate to form will decrease and since the product/precipitate is produced faster, therefore the rate of reaction will increase.