Chem Lab Report

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Introduction In Project 2, the goal of the experiment was to test for the active acidic or basic ingredients in a commercial product. By using standardized solutions of HCl and NaOH to perform a titration of the chosen commercial product, which was Vitamin C tablets and lime juice, the ascorbic acid content could be taken and compared to the manufactures standards. The information that was gained in this experiment can be compared to the manufacture’s stated amount of Vitamin C and lime juice in the nutrition facts, and our rests would either refute their measurements or prove them to be truthful. If our tests concluded that the sample of their product was so far off that it exceeds a 20% error, it will be out of the FDA standards of acceptable error and in turn be considered defective. Methods My group used the method of titration to test whether the Vitamin C and lime juice nutritional facts where correct from their manufacture. First, we started with the standardized solutions, NaOh and HCl, to get familiar with how titrations work and start the titration of potassium hydrogen phthalate (KHP). We begun by gathering up all the necessary materials needed for the titration including: the general laboratory glassware from the bins, standard safety equipment, 50mL burette, phenolphthalein, NaOh (3 mol/L), HCl (3mol/L), KHP, ascorbic acid, and lime juice. The standardization of NaOh came first, which started by gathering the KHP and putting 1.5 g into 3 flasks with 50 mL of water in each. After we added the KHP to the 50 mL of water, we placed each one of the flasks onto a stir plate with a magnet in each flask so we achieved maximum stirring. This process took about 5 minutes for all the flasks to be completely stirred. After my group that the flasks were mixed enough, we added roughly 5 drops of indicator (phenolphthalein) and then got our burette and added

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