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Activity 48 Follow-up. Discuss in your groups the difference in results for each neutralization between pairs. Lack of consistency in drop size Error in counting Difficultly deciding which number of drops gave a neutral solution if you overshot the neutral color Contamination of equipment.
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Activity 48 Follow-up • Discuss in your groups the difference in results for each neutralization between pairs. • Lack of consistency in drop size • Error in counting • Difficultly deciding which number of drops gave a neutral solution if you overshot the neutral color • Contamination of equipment
What happens as you add an acid to a basic solution or add a base to an acidic solution? • first becomes closer to neutral • eventually when you add too much, you overshoot the neutral point
2. Which solution seems more powerful in this investigation, the acidic or the basic? Explain your answer. • acid seems more powerful • takes more drops of base than acid to produce a neutral solution
Based on what you know so far, which do you think is a better way of neutralizing an acid: distilling it with water, or adding a base? • dilution is better because you only need water • when you add the base you are creating another product • neutralization is better, because dilution requires a huge volume of water • dilution because the change is more gradual and there is less chance to overshoot neutral.
Given two solutions, how might you determine: • Whether these solutions are acidic or basic? • test them with universal indicator solution or pH paper • blue = base, red = acid • Which is more acidic or basic? • mix equal amounts together and test with universal indicator • the more powerful solution will show up with the indicator
Background Information • Both the HCl and the KOH are 1% solutions by mass. • There are different numbers of reacting particles in the two solutions of the same volume. • The more powerful the solution, the more capable it is of changing the pH of the mixed solution.
Activity 48 Major Concepts • When they react in the appropriate ratio, an acidic solution and a basic solution will neutralize each other. • Substances react chemically with other substances to form new substances. For example, an acid reacts with a base to form a neutral product. • A change in pH is a chemical change.
Activity 49 Title: A Model for Acid-Base Neutralization Read pg. C-94 Problem: How can acid-base neutralization be described in a model? Hypothesis/Initial Thoughts:
The model you will be using today: • The 3 red As represent three acid particles (in one drop of acidic solution). • The 2 blue Bs represent two base particles (in one drop of basic solution). • These numbers represent the ratio of acid and base particles, not the actual number, which is many billions in a drop.
The whole class represents the solution—that is, all the drops that collectively make up a sample of solution. • For procedure step 1 your challenge is to determine if the solution (the class) is neutral. ---Suggestion: form several small neutral groups (groups w/ equal number of acid/base particles) Begin
Raise your hand if you are not part of a neutral solution. • Is the overall solution neutral? • What chemical, acidic or basic, would make this a neutral solution? • How many drops of it must be added to make this a neutral solution?
How would we prepare cards to represent a neutralization in which a drop of basic solution and a drop of acidic solution have equal numbers of acid and base particles? • Did the acid and base solutions in the neutralization we performed earlier have equal concentrations of particles per drop? A B A B
Data/Observation: • Procedure steps 3 & 4: • Read the instructions in your book and draw the indicated diagrams in your lab notebook. Label each drawing according to the step number (3a, 3b, 4a, and 4b).
3a. 3b. + = A/B B A B B A A B A/B
A A B A A A A 4a. 4b. + = B B B A/B A/B A/B
Analysis Questions • For the example in Procedure Step 1, how many drops of base would be needed to neutralize: • 2 drops of acid? Explain, or draw to show your reasoning. 3 drops of base because the acid droplet has 3 particles in it and the base droplet has 2.
10 drops of acid? • 15 drops • The acid droplet has 3 particles in it and the base droplet has 2 • 4 liters of acid? • 6 liters of base • The acid droplet has 3 particles in it and the base droplet has 2 (even though the parts are in liters) 10 x 3 = 30 and 15 x 2 = 30 4 x 3 = 12 and 6 x 2 = 12
Given that the HCl and KOH solutions used in Activity 48 were 1% (each of them contains one gram of solute per 100 grams of solution), how could you explain that the ratio of particles per drop of the neutral solution is not 1:1? • HCl has more acid particles than KOH has base particles per gram • grams of each of the solutes don’t behave the same • It takes more KOH to neutralize HCl