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Biodiesel Titration Solution A Must For Bio Titration Kits

So now were going to do an actual titration. Theres two parts to doing a titration. Theres the first part you only do once and thats getting your titration solution ready. You can use this titration solution for multiple titrations however I recommend that every ninety days you get rid of it and put a new titration solution together and thats because the KOH the sodium hydroxide the potassium hydroxide tends to oxidize with time air and UV rays so you just need to make sure that youve got fresh stuff or youre going to get false readings. The first thing were going to do is were going to take and add a liter of distilled water to a container. So theres a liter. Then Im going to measure out with my very accurate scale one gram of the catalyst Im going to use when I make biodiesel. My catalyst of choice is potassium hydroxide so Im going to balance my scale out and then Im going to set my scale to one gram. Notice itll fall. Very carefully Im going to measure out a gram of KOH. Youre going to be amazed at how little one gram is. Its really important to wear safety gloves while youre doing this because this stuff really can burn. Its quite potent stuff. Kay and weve got a gram. What were going to do is take this gram of our catalyst and were going to introduce it to our water. Then were going to allow this to dissolve. It will take a little bit of time to dissolve here sodium hydroxide takes forever to dissolve by the way. Its one of the reasons I like to use potassium hydroxide is potassium hydroxide will almost dissolve on contact. Um once this is dissolved were going to be putting it in this jug. So Im going to let this wait for a minute and well stop for a moment and come back when its dissolved.

Kay we know have fully dissolved catalyst in our liquid here so were going to just pour this right into our jar. This jar we will use this for our titration solution going forward. Very slowly Im getting it in there. Kay weve finished putting our stuff in there. Im going to seal this up and just to make sure its good and mixed in I shake it a little bit. The next thing were going to do is do an actual titration. You can put this the container away your funnel away and save it for when you need to remake your titration solution because youre only going to have to do this once. Um this is probably when you need to be the most cautious though because you are dealing with chemicals. One thing that is very important is you need to make sure that your chemicals always stay dry. If they dont theyll ruin themselves much like hydrogen peroxide; if you leave the lid off it will destroy itself as well. Thats because oxygen from the air will react with it and neutralize it. If your chemicals are clumpy in any way shape or form these are nice and clean then you may need to get new potassium hydroxide or sodium hydroxide. Thats one very important thing to know.

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