salt04 Heat of neutralisation: Synthesis of three sodium salts
Ask for an adult! Sodium hydroxide solution and the acids are corrosive.
* Heat a  wire to burn a hole into a cube of foam rubber. This hole has to fit an injection bottle.
Press it into this hole.
* Use a syringe with a blue marking to fill 1.0 ml of 1M NaOH into the vial.
* Add a drop of phenolphthalein solution, measure the temperature of the solution.
* Drip 1M HCl to the NaOH from a syringe carrying a red marking, mix.  Continue adding HCl until the red colour finally disappears. * Measure the temperature once more.
* Repeat this procedure replacing the HCl solution by solutions of HF and HBr.
Observations:
Right: During neutralisation of NaOH by HCl the temperature of the solution increased by 5,6°C (20 drops of  1M HCl were needed).
For the neutralisation with HF solution only 2 drops were necessary and the temperature rose by 8°C.
* Left: After neutralisation carefully heat the solutions to obtain the salts NaCl, NaF and NaBr.

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