Oxidation-Reduction Titration Lab Report

AP Chemistry

Sarah Hutfilz

09/09/15

Table of Contents
Oxidation-Reduction Titration Lab Report-09/09/15
Title Page.1
Table of Contents.2
Problem Statement...3
Hypothesis3
Materials..3
Procedure.3
Data..4
Prelab Questions..5
Analysis6
Conclusion...6
Discussion/Reflection..6

Problem Statement
An oxidizing solution will be standardized and then used to determine the number of
moles of oxalic acid.
Hypothesis
If I titrate a solution of oxalic acid with potassium permanganate, then I can figure out the
number of moles of oxalic acid because I can do math and the math is possible.
Materials
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50 mL Buret
3, 250 mL Erlenmeyer flasks
Hot plate
Thermometer
10 mL Volumetric pipet
25 mL Volumetric pipet
3, 100 mL Beakers
10 mL Graduated cylinder
Wash bottle
Ring stand
Buret clamp
100 mL Potassium permanganate, KMnO4=0.02M
50 mL Ferrous ammonium sulfate, Fe(NH4)2SO4*6H2O=0.1M
60 mL Oxalic acid solution, H2C2O4
50 mL Sulfuric acid, H2SO4=6M
5 mL Manganese sulfate, MnSO4*H2O=1M
Distilled water

Procedure
Independent variable: how fast potassium permanganate is going into the solution that is
being titrated
Dependent variable: how much potassium permanganate was titrated
Constants: buret, speed of drip, amount of solution
Control: no control
Part One
1. Clean the buret by rinsing it out with water three times to remove any gunk from it
2. Attach the buret to the buret clamp and then to the ring stand, therefore having the
buret attached to the ring stand by the way of the buret clamp
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Rinse the buret three times with small portions of potassium permanganate
Fill the buret with enough potassium permanganate to exceed the 0 mL mark
Open the stopcock to remove any air bubbles in the buret
Record the exact level of solution in the buret
With the Volumetric pet, transfer 10 mL of the 0.1M Fe+2 solution to a clean 250 mL
Erlenmeyer flask. Record this volume in the Part 1data table
8. Measure out 10 mL of the 6M H2SO4 into a clean 10 mL graduated cylinder and add
this to the Erlenmeyer flask. Swirl to mix.
9. Position the flask so the tip of the buret is within the flask but at least 2cm above the
liquid surface
10. Titrate the Fe+2 solution with the MnO4- solution until the first trace of pink color
persists for more than 30 seconds. Remember to swirl the flask and to rinse the walls
of the flask with distilled water before the endpoint is reached.
11. Record the final buret reading as the final volume of the MnO4- solution in the Part 1
Data Table
12. Repeat the standardization two more times
Part Two
1. Obtain approximately 60 mL of the oxalic acid solution in a clean 100 mL beaker
2. With a 25 mL volumetric pipet, transfer 25 mL samples of the oxalic acid solution to
each of two 250 mL Erlenmeyer flasks. Record the volume in the Part 2 Data Table.
3. Add 5 drops of the 1M MnSO4 solution to each flask.
4. Measure out 10 mL of 6M H2SO4 into a graduated cylinder and add this amount to
each of the 250mL Erlenmeyer flasks. Add 20mL of distilled water to each flask and
swirl.
5. Warm the first flask to about 85 C on the hot plate
6. Immediately titrate this solution with the standardized MnO4- solution from Part 1.
Record both the initial and final buret readings in the Part 2 Data Table
7. Repeat steps 5and 6 with the second buret
Data Table
Part One

Volume of Fe+2
solution titrated
Initial volume of
MnO4- solution
Final volume of
MnO4- solution
Volume of MnO4added

Trial 1
10mL

Trial 2
9.99mL

Trial 3
9.99mL

13mL

25.2mL

34.5mL

25.2mL

34.5mL

46.9mL

12.2mL

9.3mL

11.5mL

Part Two

Volume of H2C2O4 solution

titrated
Initial volume of MnO4solution
Final volume of MnO4solution
Volume of MnO4- added

Trial 1
25mL

Trial 2
25mL

0mL

22.2mL

22.2mL

46mL

22.2mL

23.8mL

Prelab Questions
1. Write the balanced net ionic equation for the reaction between MnO4- ions and
H2C2O4 in acid solution.
2MnO4-(aq)+10H2O(l)+5H2C2O4(aq)2Mn+2(aq)+8H2O(l)+10H3CO3(aq)
2. How many moles of Fe+2 ions can be oxidized by 0.043 moles of MnO4- ions?
0.215 moles of Fe+2
3. 1.630g of iron ore is dissolved in an acidic solution. This solution is titrated to a pink
endpoint with 27.15 mL of a 0.020M KMnO4 solution.
a. How many moles of MnO4- ions were consumed?
M=mol/L 27.15mL=0.02715L
0.02715L*(0.02mol/1L)
0.000543 mol MnO4b. How many moles of Fe+2 were in the iron ore sample?
1.630g*(1 mol/55.8g)
0.02921 mol Fe+2
c. What is the percent of iron in the iron ore sample?
100%
Analysis
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1. From the Part 1 standardization table, calculate the molarity of MnO4- for each trial.
Average the values and enter the average in the Part 2 Data Table.
Approx. 0.02 mol/L
2. From the Part 2 titration data, calculate the molarity of H2C2O4 for each trial.
Average the values and enter the average in the Part 2 Data Table.
3. How many moles of Fe+2 ions and MnO4- ions were titrated in each trial?
0.00066 mol of MnO4- and 0.01 mol of Fe+2
4. How many moles of H2C2O4 were titrated in each trial?
0.025 mol
Conclusion
My hypothesis is correct because I claimed I can figure out how many moles of oxalic
acid were titrated and I did because I got 0.025 moles. Experimental error I could have had
would have been heating the solutions too much, having too little or too much of a solution, and
not timing correctly. I could fix the errors by taking more care when heating the solutions, double
checking the measurements of solutions, and having two timers to ensure the timing is correct
(respectively).
Discussion/Reflection
I learned how to calculate the moles of a solution through titrating the same solution. We
are learning how to calculate moles through various means and this is one of those means.