Instructions for Use
Pour
Titrate
Calculate
Pour
- Unscrew Cap.
- Extract the plug carefully. Use a firm grip to avoid dropping.
- Rinse inside and outside of the bottom part of the blind plug with 5-10mL of water while holding it over the beaker to capture the liquid.
- Pour entire contents of the Standardette® Solution into the beaker.
- Rinse the inside of the ampule 5 times with intermediate swirling into the beaker. Use 5- 10mL of water for each rinse.
- Top up volume in beaker to ~80mL with DI water.
Titrate
- Rinse a 50mL burette twice with approximately 10mL of the EDTA solution.
- Clamp the burette in position and fill the burette to just above the zero mark with the EDTA solution.
- Release any bubbles from the tip of the burette.
- Bring the EDTA solution meniscus down to or below the zero mark, read, and record the burette reading to the nearest 0.01mL.
- Titrate while stirring.
- Add
- 30mL EDTA
- 15mL 1N Sodium hydroxide and then
- 300mg Hydroxy naphthol blue (triturate on NaCl)
- Stir vigorously as the endpoint approaches, adding fractions of a drop of titrant using a glass stir rod.
- Note color changes: Reddish (during titration) to Burgundy (just before endpoint) and finally Blue (the endpoint.)
- Read the burette at the endpoint to the nearest 0.01mL.
- Complete the titration in exactly 3 minutes.
- Correct the volume of titrant to 20°C.
Calculate
- Normality = Meq on the label /mL of EDTA solution used