Is 1.5 mol/L HCl corrosive? (1 Viewer)

[Cleavage]

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[golgo13]

Is it possible to put some context to it?

 

[Cleavage]

Is it possible to put some context to it?

If I poured it all over my hand during a titration (HCl being the solution that i am to determine the concentration of), can I use the fact that it didn't burn my hand as a way to calculate the concentration.

 

[Machiavelli1]

You could probably find the range it was in by doing that, but other than that obviously it's not a very accurate method.

 

[Cleavage]

You could probably find the range it was in by doing that, but other than that obviously it's not a very accurate method.

hahahah that was probably a bad explanation. During the titration, I accidentally spilt some of HCl solution on my hand. I then calculated, through titration, the HCl to be 0.14 mol/L. I had a few friends who calculated the same result, and I had a few others who calculated 1.5mol/L. Everybody i know got one of those two results.

If 1.5mol/L HCl is corrosive, then my result is probably correct.

So ... is it corrosive?

 

[panda15]

hahahah that was probably a bad explanation. During the titration, I accidentally spilt some of HCl solution on my hand. I then calculated, through titration, the HCl to be 0.14 mol/L. I had a few friends who calculated the same result, and I had a few others who calculated 1.5mol/L. Everybody i know got one of those two results.

If 1.5mol/L HCl is corrosive, then my result is probably correct.

So ... is it corrosive?

Were you asked to dilute the acid by a factor of 10 as part of the prac? If so, then you may have forgot to factor that into your final calculation of concentration.

 

[Cleavage]

Were you asked to dilute the acid by a factor of 10 as part of the prac? If so, then you may have forgot to factor that into your final calculation of concentration.

haha damn, no i wasn't told to dilute it.

 

[Kurosaki]

Then your calculation should be right (unless your teacher already did the dilution for you or mixed up bottles or something).

 

[panda15]

Yeahhh sorry dude. I think there was a dilution somewhere that you didn't account for.

 

[someth1ng]

Personally, I don't consider 1.5 M to be concentrated - sometimes, I don't even consider 6 M to be concentrated. However, that's probably because I have handled 16 M strong acids and bases.

Oh, and no, you can't use that as a method of determining concentration. I would not burn you up to 5 M or so.

 

[golgo13]

U can use the pH calculation to work out how acidic it is, i don't think its particularly wise in general to pour over your hand. If you have ur results its prolly a bit easier to work out for us