PREPARATION and STANDARDIZATION of HCl and NaOH

a-Preparation of ~0.10M HCl

1- Take a 1000 or 2000 ml of storage bottle. Wash it well with soap or detergent
first. Rinse it out with tap and then with distilled water couple of times.

2 - Measure 1000 -ml of distilled water into a beaker. Heat the water to boiling.

3 - Then cool it to room temperature. Add about 8 ml of conc. HCl (12M), mix it
well and store it in a stoppered bottle.

b-Preparation of ~0.10 M NaOH
1- Take a 1000 or 2000 -ml of storage bottle. Repeat the washing procedure as
given in part a.

2- Measure 1000 -ml of distilled water into a beaker. Heat the water to boiling,
then cool. Add about 4 g of NaOH pellets weighed onan watch glass, mix it well
and store it in a rubber stoppered bottle. (Caution : NaOH is very corrosive, do
not spill and if you do, wash it off immediately with an excess of water.)

Things to be done before the experiment
Obtain the burette set. Wash it well with detergent water and then rinse it out
couple of times with tap and distilled water. Rinse it out once more with the
solution to be standardized and then fill it up with the same solution. Be sure that
the tip of the burette is free of air bubbles.

Standardization of HCI
1- Weigh duplicate ~0.20 to 0.25 g ( 0.1 mg) samples of previously dried
standard Na
2
C0
3
. Dissolve samples in ~100- ml distilled water; if it does not
dissolve quickly, you may warm the solution.

2 - Cool the solution to room temperature and add ~3 drops of bromocresol green
indicator, solution turns into blue. Titrate it with HCluntil green color is reached.

3 - Heat and boil out C0
2
gently. You should obtain a blue color again at the end
of this step. Cool to room temperature, and continue titration until yellow color is
reached.

4 - Calculate the molarity of HCI, it should agree to about two parts per thousand.
If they do not agree, repeat the procedure for the third time and take the avg. of
the two closest results.

Standardization of ~0.10M NaOH
1- Weigh duplicate samples of 0.50-0.60 g of previously dried standard KHP into
250- ml flasks. Dissolve each sample in ~100- mlboiled distilled water.

2 - Cool to room temperature, add 2-4 drops of phenolphthalein indicator. Titrate
it with NaOH until the first appearance of a permanent, pink color.

3 - Back titrate with your standard HCl if you miss the end point. Calculate
the molarity of NaOH solution.

4 - If runs do not agree to about two parts per thousand, repeat for the third time
and take the avg. of the two closest result s.
DATA
Standardization of HCI
Trial 1 Trial 2 Trial 3
wt. of standard Na
2
C0
3
_______g _______g _______g
ml of HCI ________ ________ ________
molarity of HCI ________ ________ ________
avg. molarity of HCI ____________________

Standardization of NaOH
Trial 1 Trial 2 Trial 3
wt. of standard KHP _______g _______g _______g
ml of NaOH ________ ________ ________
molarity of NaOH ________ ________ ________
avg. molarity of NaOH ____________________