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How to proceed with iodometric titration to determine caffeine concentration in liquid coffee?

Classical volumetric titrations are not selective. This means if there are multiple components in the mixture, they will react with the reagents used in the titration. Since coffee and tea are real-...
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What is alkalimetry?

IUPAC's current terminology for the kinds of titrations is based on the following classification [1, p. 580]: nature of end-point detection (coulometric, potentiometric, amperometric, conductometric, ...
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What is alkalimetry?

Practically, the right meaning is the meaning used and/or assumed in given context, circumstances, community. Use, what is more usual in your region, or perhaps better, replace it by more universal ...
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What is alkalimetry?

It is an obsolete term but nevertheless an analytical chemist should be familiar with it. Break the word into two: alkali + -metry. Measurement of an alkali (content). In other words, you use a ...
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Why do we use alcohol as solvent for phenolphtalein when titrating free fatty acids in oil?

PP (and some other indicators too) is used in the form of its ethanol solution because its solubility in water is low. PP is specifically used for titrations of weak acids, as the titration equivalent ...
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Conductometric titration curve plotting

The dotted plot is for addition of 10M NaOH to 1L of 1M HCl and each mole of NaOH increases volume by 0.1 L. The other one is linear where I didn't consider any increase in volume of titrate on ...
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