Scribd
Upload
29 views

0.1M Thiosulfate Standardization Against Potassium Iodate: Iodometric Titration

Uploaded by

20171518
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
29 views

0.1M Thiosulfate Standardization Against Potassium Iodate: Iodometric Titration

Uploaded by

20171518
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 9

0.

1M thiosulfate standardization against


potassium iodate
Potassium iodate is in fact not titrated directly, but after it is mixed with iodate in acidic solution,
it is a source of iodine:

IO3- + 5I- + 6H+ → 3I2 + 3H2O

This reaction needs presence of acid. As it was already signalled on the iodometric titration
overview page, low pH both helps air oxygen oxidize iodides to iodine and speeds up thiosulfate
decomposition. Both reactions are detrimental for the standardization, but they can be ignored if
the water is oxygen free and titration doesn't take too long.

Iodine solution is then titrated with thiosulfate:

2S2O32- + I2 → S4O62- + 2I-

Procedure to follow:

 Weight exactly about 0.10-0.15g of dry potassium iodate and transfer it to Erlenmayer
flask.
 Add 40 mL of freshly boiled distilled water

 Add 2 g of (iodate free) potassium iodide.

 Add 10 mL of 1M hydrochloric acid solution and swirl the soltion.

 Titrate swirling the flask, until a pale yellow.

 Add 5 ml of the starch solution.

 Titrate swirling the flask, until blue color disappears.

For calculations we will use rather strangely looking reaction equation:

KIO3 + 6Na2S2O3 + 6H+ → 3S4O62- + I- + K+ + 12Na+ + 3H2O

Strangely as it looks, it correctly describes stoichiometry of the whole process.

To calculate thiosulfate solution concentration use EBAS - stoichiometry calculator.


Download thiosulfate standardization against potassium iodate reaction file, open it
with the free trial version of the stoichiometry calculator.

Enter potassium iodate mass in the upper (input) frame in the mass edit field above
KIO3 formula. Click n=CV button below thiosulfate in the output frame, enter volume
of the solution used, read solution concentration.

0.1M thiosulfate standardization against


potassium dichromate
Dichromate - which can be easily obtained in a very pure form - oxidizes iodides to iodine:

Cr2O72- + 6I- + 14H+ → 2Cr3+ + 3I2 + 7H2O

Iodine solution is then titrated with thiosulfate:

2S2O32- + I2 → S4O62- + 2I-

First reaction is not too fast, so after mixing reagents they should be left for 5 minutes. Also final
color is different from what we are usually seeing during iodometric titrations, as solution
contains trivalent, green chromium.

Procedure to follow:
 Pour 80 mL of freshly boiled, distilled water into Erlenmayer flask (or better - flask with
glass stopper).

 Add 2 g of (iodate free) potassium iodide.

 Add 25 mL of 1M hydrochloric acid solution and swirl the soltion.

 Close the flask and left it in a dark place for a 5 minutes.

 Titrate swirling the flask, until yellow iodine tint is barely visible.

 Add 5 ml of the starch solution.

 Titrate swirling the flask, until blue color disappears.

This is a two step process, but iodine is only intermediate, and the stoichiometry of
the overall reaction that we are interested in is

K2Cr2O7 + 6Na2S2O3 + 14H+ → 2Cr3+ + 2K+ + 12Na+ + 3S4O62- + 7H2O

This is not an exact reaction equation describing what is happening in the solution, but
it has correct stoichiometric coefficients and allows easy calculation of amount of
thiosulfate reacting with a given mass of potassium dichromate.

To calculate thiosulfate solution concentration use EBAS - stoichiometry calculator.


Download thiosulfate standardization against potassium dichromate reaction file, open
it with the free trial version of the stoichiometry calculator.

Enter potassium dichromate mass in the upper (input) frame in the mass edit field
above K2Cr2O7 formula. Click n=CV button below thiosulfate in the output frame,
enter volume of the solution used, read solution concentration.

0.05M iodine standardization against


thiosulfate
This procedure is in fact one of the two based on the reaction of thiosulfate with iodine:

2S2O32- + I2 → S4O62- + 2I-

If we have iodine solution of known concentration we can easily use it as a standard for
thiosulfate solution standardization and vice versa. This is a common situation in the lab practice.
The only problem is selection of the volume of thiosulfate sample. If we use 50 mL burette, and
both solutions are 0.1N (that means 0.05M solution of iodine and 0.1M solution of thiosulfate),
we should use 45 mL of thiosulfate - to make sure we use as large volume of the iodine solution
as possible to minimize effects of the volume reading error. However, there are no single volume
volumetric pipettes of 45 mL volume :) The most logical approach is to use 20 mL pipette and 25
mL burette.

Procedure to follow:

 Measure 20 mL of thiosulfate solution and transfer it to Erlenmayer flask.

 Add 5 ml of the starch solution.

 Titrate swirling the flask, until a blue color persists for 20 seconds.

To calculate iodine solution concentration use EBAS - stoichiometry calculator.


Download iodine standardization against thiosulfate reaction file, open it with the free
trial version of the stoichiometry calculator.

Click n=CV button over thiosulfate. Enter concentration and volume of the sample,
click Use button. Click n=CV button below iodine in the output frame, enter volume
of the solution used, read solution concentration.

0.1M thiosulfate standardization against


iodine
This is almost exactly the same procedure we have described above, just titrant and titrated
substance are switched.

2S2O32- + I2 → S4O62- + 2I-

Again, we have a problem with selection of the volume of titrated sample, and again the most
logical approach is to use 20 mL pipette and 25 mL burette.

Procedure to follow is also very similar, just the moment of adding the indicator is different and
we titrate not till color appears, but till it disappears:

 Measure 20 mL of iodine solution and transfer it to Erlenmayer flask.

 Titrate swirling the flask, until a pale yellow.

 Add 5 ml of the starch solution.


 Titrate swirling the flask, until blue color disappear

You might also like