Potentiometric Titration

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Exp No 05

Potentiometric titration of ferrous ion with


standard potassium dichromate solution

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Objectives

➢ Understanding of redox reactions


➢ Develop understating about the electroanalytical techniques
➢ Determination of the concentration of analytes (iron) present in
a sample

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Potentiometry

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Potentiometry

➢ In potentiometry, information of the sample composition is


obtained from the potential develop between two electrodes.

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Potentiometry

➢ It measures electrical potential develops by an electrode in an


electrolyte solution at zero current flow.
➢ Nernst Equation is used to relate potential to concentration of
the analyte in solution.

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Types of Electrodes

Reference electrode:
➢ It gives reference for potential measurement.
➢ The electrode is a stable reversible nonpolarizable electrode
➢ Shows little hysteresis with temperature.
➢ The high stability of the electrode potential is usually reached
by employing a redox system with constant concentrations of
each participants of the redox reaction.

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Types of Electrodes

Indicator/ working electrode:


➢ It responds to the analyte
➢ It could be metallic or membrane type
➢ Inert conductors that themselves do not engage in
electrochemical reactions under the conditions in which a
redox reaction of interest occurs.

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Advantages of Potentiometric Titration

Advantages of potentiometric titrations over 'classical' visual


indicator methods are:
1. Can be used for colored, turbid or fluorescent analyte solution.
2. Can be used for titration of polyprotic acids, mixtures of acids,
mixtures of bases or mixtures of halides.

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Titration Process

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Titration Curve

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Nernst Equation

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Conducting Experiment
Procedure
1. Take 20 mL Fe(II) solution or Mohr’s salt FeSO4.(NH4)2SO4.
6H2O solution in a beaker.
2. Add 10 mL H2SO4 solution (3 M)
3. Fill up the burette with K2Cr2O7 (0.017 M ) 20 mL solution and
drop wise add it.
4. Record the potential at 0.5 mL interval when the change of
potential is small
5. Record the potential at 0.2 mL interval when the change of
potential is becoming larger.
6. Take of a graph and plot potential vs. volume of potassium
dichromate added
7. Draw first derivative and second derivative of the potential-
volume curve.

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Additional Processing

E1/2 Calculation
➢ E1/2: Potential when half of the reactant converted to product

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