Indicators and Acid-base Titrations

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Indicators and Acid-base Titrations: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as, Acid-base Indicators, Ostwald's Theory of Acid-base Indicators, The Titration of a Weak Base with a Weak Acid & Titration of Strong Base with a Weak Acid etc.

Important Questions on Indicators and Acid-base Titrations

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4-methyl benzene sulphonic acid reacts with sodium acetate to give

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When a weak acid is titrated with a weak base, what is the pH At the equivalence point?

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Is Phenolphthalein and methyl orange weak acid and weak base explain it?

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According to Ostwald's theory of acid-base indicators, the colour change in titration is due to the ionisation of the acid-base indicator.

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According to quinonoid theory, the acid-base indicators exist in two tautomeric forms having different structures.

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Explain the quinonoid theory of acid-base indicators.

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Phenolphthalein does not act as an indicator for the titration between:

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The indicator used in the titration of sodium carbonate with sulphuric acid is:

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The suitable indicator for strong acid and weak base is:

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Which is/are correct statements?

(i) In any strong acid solution, the concentration of OH- will be zero.

(ii) If G° of a reaction is positive, then the reaction will not proceed at all, in the forward direction for any concentrations of reactants and products.

(iii) Titration curves are drawn for (about the figure shown).

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(a)  1 M HCl 50 mL  with 1 M NaOH and(b) 0.01 M HCl 50 mL with 0.01 M NaOH on the same graph paper they look like

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What is the volume of hydrogen chloride(HCl) required for complete reaction of sodium bicarbonate(NaHCO3) in a double titration method, for the mixture of sodium bicarbonate(NaHCO3) and sodium carbonate (Na2CO3).If the volume of hydrogen chloride(HCl) used at phenolphthalein indicator end point was x ml and further of Methyl orange indicator end point was y ml.

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Cotyledons are also called-

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An alkali is titrated against an acid with methyl orange as indicator, which of the following is a correct combination?

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The colour change of an indicator HIn in acid base titration is given below
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Which of the following statement is correct?

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A 100 mL solution contained Na2CO3 and NaHCO3 . 25 mL of the solution required 5 mL of N/10 HCl for

neutralization using phenolphthalein as an indicator. Addition of methyl orange required a further 15 mL of the

acidic for neutralization. The amount of Na2CO3 present in the solution is

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When KMnO4 solution is titrated with a solution containing Fe2+ ion, the indicator used in this titration is

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Methyl orange gives red colour in

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Which indicator can be used in the titration of strong acid and strong base?

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Conductometric titration curve of an equimolar mixture of HCl and HCN with NaOH (aq) is

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The pink colour of phenolphthalein in alkaline medium is due to