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Date May 2017 Marks available 2 Reference code 17M.3.sl.TZ1.4
Level SL Paper 3 Time zone TZ1
Command term State and explain Question number 4 Adapted from N/A

Question

A class was determining the concentration of aqueous sodium hydroxide by titrating it with hydrochloric acid, whilst monitoring the pH of the solution. The sodium hydroxide solution was added into a glass beaker from a measuring cylinder and the hydrochloric acid added using a burette. One group of students accidentally used a temperature probe rather than a pH probe. Their results are given below.

Volume of aqueous NaOH = 25.0 ± 0.5 cm3

Concentration of HCl = 1.00 ± 0.01 mol dm−3

State and explain how the graph would differ if 1 mol dm−3 sulfuric acid had been used instead of 1 mol dm−3 hydrochloric acid.

Markscheme

graph would peak/maximum at 17.5 cm3
OR
smaller volume of acid «needed to reach equivalence» 

sulfuric acid is dibasic/diprotic

higher temperature would be reached

 

Accept “gradient/slope «of graph» is greater/steeper” for M1.

Accept “one mole of sulfuric acid neutralizes two moles of NaOH” for M2.

[2 marks]

Examiners report

[N/A]

Syllabus sections

Core » Topic 11: Measurement and data processing » 11.2 Graphical techniques
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