Now realize that when we talk about strong acid-strong base titrations, they deal with stoichiometric calculations of chemical reactions involving neutralizations between strong acids and bases. We're going to say, what is neutralization now? Neutralization is where we have a chemical reaction in which the moles of acid and base react stoichiometrically to one another. What's important here in these types of titration or neutralization reactions is that strong acids neutralize bases. It doesn't matter if the bases are weak or strong. That's what they do in general. And strong bases neutralize acids in general. Again, it doesn't matter if they're weak or strong. In this case, we're focusing on strong acids and strong bases playing off of one another. Okay? We're not going to talk about weak acids or weak bases being involved here. That's for a later discussion. So just realize that when we're talking about a strong acid, strong base titration, all it really is is stoichiometry of acids and bases.
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Strong Acid-Base Titrations deal with stoichiometric calculations of chemical reactions involving neutralization between strong acids and bases.
Strong Acid Strong Base Titration
Strong Acid Strong Base Titrations (Simplified) Concept 1
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Strong Acid Strong Base Titrations (Simplified) Concept 2
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So remember, strong acid, strong base titrations are just stoichiometric questions dealing with acids and bases. Because of that, we can use a stoichiometric chart. Now remember, the chart uses the given quantity of an acid or base in this case to determine the unknown quantity of another acid or base. Here we have HCl, so hydrochloric acid, reacting with barium hydroxide to produce barium chloride and water. We're given this volume and molarity of barium hydroxide, we're given this volume of HCl, and you're looking for the missing molarity. Realize here that looking at this equation from a stoichiometric viewpoint tells us that our given amount that we start with is usually in molarity, or it can be given to us in grams, or it can be given to us in moles. Now, the molarity is usually coupled with volume. So it's usually liters per molarity, which leads us directly into moles of given. And remember, just like the other stoichiometric charts we've seen, once you know your moles of given, you would do the jump. Where are you going to go from moles of given to moles of unknown? And during this jump, you have to look do a mole to mole comparison, which means you have to use the coefficients in the balanced equation. Once you have your moles of unknown, you can go anywhere you want. You can use that to find the molarity of the unknown, or you can even use it to find the grams of unknown. So if you've seen my videos on stoichiometric charts before, this is kind of like a rehash, but now looking and focusing through the lens of an acid and a base undergoing a titration. Now that we've gone over the basic parts of it that we've seen before in earlier videos, move on to the next video and let's take a look at the example question.
Strong Acid Strong Base Titrations (Simplified) Example 1
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So here it says, if it takes 25.13 ml of 0.320 molar barium hydroxide to titrate 31 ml of a solution containing hydrochloric acid, what is the molar concentration of hydrochloric acid? Alright. So to solve this, we're going to do the following steps. First, we're going to convert the given quantity into moles of given. Our given quantity is this part here. It's volume of molarity. Think of this as a complete set. "Of" means multiply, and remember that moles equals liters times molarity. So, if I change these milliliters into liters and multiply them by the molarity, that'll give me the moles of barium hydroxide. Alright. So what I'm going to do first is I'm going to have 0.02513 liters. I converted it into liters already. Remember that the molarity means moles over liters, so that's 0.320 moles of barium hydroxide per 1 liter. Liters cancel out, and what I've just done is found the moles of given, the moles of barium hydroxide.
Now step 2 says to do a mole to mole comparison to convert moles of given into moles of unknown. Alright. So we look at the balanced equation. We put moles of barium hydroxide here on the bottom so it can cancel out, and moles of hydrochloric acid here on top. According to my balanced equation, for every one mole of barium hydroxide, we have 2 moles of hydrochloric acid. So these moles cancel out. Now at this point, this will give me the moles of hydrochloric acid, which are 0.0160832 moles.
Next, it says, if necessary, convert the moles of unknown into the desired units. We have to go a step further; we have to find molarity. So, if the molarity is required, then divide the moles of unknown by its liters. So I just found the moles of my unknown, but that's not my molarity, that's not my molar concentration. I'm going to take those moles that I just found and then divide it by its liters. HCl has 31 ml's, which when you convert to liters is 0.031 liters. Here, that'll give me my molarity as 0.519 molar HCl. So this would be my final answer for this particular question.
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