Back titration of Calcium Carbonate with Sodium Hydroxide.
Introduction
Here the amount of Calcium Carbonate is asked and because it is an insoluble salt "back titration" is used. Titration is a method which it's another name is volumetric method, in this method a reactant is used to bring a reaction to endpoint. In this method, one sample (unknown) value is determined by a standard (known) value.
But "back titration" is needed because here Calcium Carbonate is an insoluble salt and it's not possible to calculate its amount by direct titration.
In this experiment first calcium carbonate was reacted with an excess known hydrochloric acid and the unreacted
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