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Answer:
See explanation below to full answer
Explanation:
First of all, you are not providing the amounts of acid and hydroxide here, to do the calculations. However, in order to help you, I will use these values that are taken from a similar exercise. Then, replace your data with this procedure and you should get the correct answer.
For this part, I will say that the student weights about 210 mg of oxalic acid, (H2C2O4) and the volume of NaOH used to reach equivalent point was 150 mL in a beaker of 250 mL.
Now the equivalence point is the point where both moles of acid and hydroxide are the same. In other words:
nA = nB
The reaction that it's taking place is the following:
2NaOH + H2C2O4 ----------> Na2C2O4 + 2H2O
This means that 2 moles of NaOH reacts with 1 mole of H2C2O4, therefore the expression in (1) corrected is:
nB = 2 nA
So, we need to calculate first the moles of the acid. To do that we need the molar mass of the acid (the reported is 90.03 g/mol)
nA = 0.210 / 90.03 = 0.0023 moles
We have the moles of acid used, so the moles of the hydroxide is:
nB = 2 * 0.0023 = 0.0046 moles
We have the volume used of hydroxide, which is 150 mL, so finally the concentration is:
MB = 0.0046 / 0.150 = 0.031 M
Now, replace the actual values that you have in here, and you should get an accurate result.