Understanding Titrations

[Wendy 1E]

Hi everyone!

I am having a bit of trouble understanding what a titration is from Fundamentals Section L. The textbook has a definition but makes it very wordy and confusing. Can anyone provide a simple definition of what a titration is?

[Jack Riley 4f]

Titration is the process of slowly adding one solution of a known concentration into another solution with a known volume. So basically any of the homework problems that we have completed in fundamentals L is an example of titration.

[Tiffany Vo 3G]

Titrations are essentially used to determine the molarity of a solution. If you had an unknown solution of some acid, you could use a basic solution with known concentration to determine the molarity of the acidic solution. You would add an indicator to the acidic solution and then continuously add mL of the basic solution until the acidic solution changed color. Judging by the mL of basic solution that was added to the acidic solution, you could then convert the basic solution's molarity to moles by multiplying the volume of basic solution added to the acidic solution by the basic solution's molarity. Moles of acid would be equivalent to moles of base, so you'd then divide by the volume of acid you originally had to find molarity of the acidic solution (I think).

[Veronica_Lubera_2A]

Usually in a titration problem you would also use the formula M1V1=M2V2. On one side of the equation you input the molarity and volume of the Acid, while on the other side you input the molarity and volume of the base. And, you can calculate molarity using M= moles/Liters.