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[*] posted on 17-3-2014 at 11:26
Hydrogen peroxide titration


Hello, I just froze some H2O2 and poured the remaining liquid off to get concentrated H2O2. I looked up ways to preform a titration with it and they say that you need sulfuric acid and potassium permanganate. Im wondering if i could use manganese dioxide (from a battery) to do a titration. Also i am new to chemistry so if its very complex please try to make it understandable to me.
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[*] posted on 17-3-2014 at 11:34


Quote: Originally posted by copperastic  
Hello, I just froze some H2O2 and poured the remaining liquid off to get concentrated H2O2. I looked up ways to preform a titration with it and they say that you need sulfuric acid and potassium permanganate. Im wondering if i could use manganese dioxide (from a battery) to do a titration. Also i am new to chemistry so if its very complex please try to make it understandable to me.
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I'm not sure whether your idea of concentrating H2O2 would actually work.

But apart from that manganese dioxide is a water insoluble solid and cannot be used as a titrant. Furthermore, battery filler contains at least 30 % graphite (conductor), as well as other impurities like iron oxide, zinc chloride and ammonium chloride.

KMnO<sub>4</sub> is cheap and easily available from eBay, Amazon etc. Choose a good quality grade, so it can be used without standardising the titrant solution.

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[*] posted on 17-3-2014 at 11:36


Oh ok i will probably get some real stuff thanks



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[*] posted on 17-3-2014 at 11:37


The melting point of H2O2 is −0.43 °C, whereas the melting point of water is 0ºC. You can't freeze a solution of H2O2 in order to concentrate it.
Here you have some good ideas on titration and how to measure the concentration of your H2O2:
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=28354#...
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[*] posted on 17-3-2014 at 11:41


HgDinis25 i froze the water and the liquid was H2O2.



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[*] posted on 17-3-2014 at 11:45


Quote: Originally posted by copperastic  
HgDinis25 i froze the water and the liquid was H2O2.


You can't do that. When freezing a solution, you won't get the highest melting point to freeze first. It isn't as linear as that. And imagening you actualy could, the melting points are almost the same.
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[*] posted on 17-3-2014 at 11:50


Quote: Originally posted by copperastic  
HgDinis25 i froze the water and the liquid was H2O2.


Careful with such claims: do you have evidence to back this up? This is a science forum: misinformation provided inadvertently or on purpose is a cardinal sin.




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[*] posted on 17-3-2014 at 11:55


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S4JMcb6-n8 this is the video were i got the infromation.



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[*] posted on 17-3-2014 at 12:01


Quote: Originally posted by copperastic  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S4JMcb6-n8 this is the video were i got the infromation.


With all due respect, never place too much trust in herbs and "everything natural" channels that claim synteshis of chemcials. From my own experience, half of that is plain wrong.
At the beginning, he said he froze the liquid without carefull controling of the temperature. Forget about it, the all solution would have froze all together.
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[*] posted on 17-3-2014 at 12:02


Quote: Originally posted by HgDinis25  
The melting point of H2O2 is −0.43 °C, whereas the melting point of water is 0ºC. You can't freeze a solution of H2O2 in order to concentrate it.


That depends on the original concentration of the solution, and where the eutectic mixture is. According to the phase diagram on page 15 of this: http://webserver.dmt.upm.es/~isidoro/bk3/c07sol/Solution%20p... , you can cool a solution of hydrogen peroxide that is less than 50% hydrogen peroxide by weight and water will crystallize out, leaving a more concentrated solution of hydrogen peroxide, as long as you don't cool it much past -50 oC.

Trying link again:
http://webserver.dmt.upm.es/~isidoro/bk3/c07sol/Solution%20p...

Weird. If you google for "hydrogen peroxide eutectic", it's the first link that comes up as a pdf.



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[*] posted on 17-3-2014 at 12:10


DA:

That link doesn't appear to work, can you fix it? Or attach the pdf here? One can't have enough phase diagrams.

I wouldn't let that guy near a bottle of water, never mind a bottle of peroxide. No evidence for concentration of the H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> is provided whatsoever.


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[*] posted on 17-3-2014 at 12:16


The pdf isn't working for me neither. It would, however, be an interesting read, because I've never heard of peroxide concentration this way nor thought it possible.
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[*] posted on 17-3-2014 at 12:28


Ah, the pdf seems to have mysteriously materialised somehow. If cars or other machines were made of IT they'd be death traps.

I'm gonna print off the relevant pages (15 - 16) and have a closer look.

But it appears that DA is entirely correct.


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[*] posted on 17-3-2014 at 12:31


Quote: Originally posted by blogfast25  
Ah, the pdf seems to have mysteriously materialised somehow. If cars or other machines were made of IT they'd be death traps.

I'm gonna print off the relevant page (15) and have a closer look.



Still not working here. If you could scan the relevant page, please...
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[*] posted on 17-3-2014 at 12:57


If you would have searched on the forum a bit before posting, you would have found this recent discussion on various methods to determine hydrogen peroxide concentration: http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=28354
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[*] posted on 17-3-2014 at 13:00


MrHomeScientist!! I watch your videos!



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[*] posted on 17-3-2014 at 13:00


Quote: Originally posted by MrHomeScientist  
If you would have searched on the forum a bit before posting, you would have found this recent discussion on various methods to determine hydrogen peroxide concentration: http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=28354


I've already posted such a link in this topic, read a little above. Careful when criticizing the newbies, afterall he ended up starting a constructive discusion on peroxide concentration.
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[*] posted on 17-3-2014 at 13:13


What the phase diagram shows is that between 0 C and - 52 C and between 0 w% and about 50 w% H2O2, H2O(s) separates out. By definition it means that the liquidus is enriched in H2O2.

Going back to the OP's question, a rough idea of that enrichment can be obtained from a mass balance in H2O2. Say you started from 100 g 10 w% H2O2 and froze out 40 g of ice, leaving 60 g of liquidus.

Since as you started with 10 g of pure H2O2 (10 w% of 100 g) and none is either made or destroyed during freezing, you now have 10 g of pure H2O2 in 60 g of liquidus or 10 w% x (100/60) = 16.7 w% H2O2.


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[*] posted on 17-3-2014 at 13:16


Well, if that's true (I don't know the veracity of such phase diagram) then we have a good method to concentrate store bought peroxide. I have done some digging here, and I haven't seen anyone posting about this sort of method. Must try it out.
Anyway, ReactionFactory youtube channel has a good demonstrative video, about peroxide titration using sulfuric acid and permanganate. OP, you can check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Irs0-YrE7mA&list=UU8rrF2J...
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[*] posted on 17-3-2014 at 13:17


Quote: Originally posted by HgDinis25  

Still not working here. If you could scan the relevant page, please...


Full pdf attached.

Attachment: Solution properties phase diagrams.pdf (329kB)
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[*] posted on 17-3-2014 at 13:31


http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=16726
Another thread I found, containing some information about the freezing method. It seems that the quantity you get isn't that much but it's worth the try.
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[*] posted on 17-3-2014 at 14:03


35 % isn't hard to get or expensive nowadays.



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[*] posted on 17-3-2014 at 14:06


Quote: Originally posted by blogfast25  
35 % isn't hard to get or expensive nowadays.


I used to get it by 6 euro a liter. But suppliers are stopping to sell this sort of products because of almost no salles.
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[*] posted on 17-3-2014 at 14:19


Quote: Originally posted by HgDinis25  

I used to get it by 6 euro a liter. But suppliers are stopping to sell this sort of products because of almost no salles.


http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313...

Hmmm... too many 35 % listings to count. No sales? I doubt that very much: where there's supply there's demand.




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[*] posted on 17-3-2014 at 14:21


Quote: Originally posted by blogfast25  
Quote: Originally posted by HgDinis25  

I used to get it by 6 euro a liter. But suppliers are stopping to sell this sort of products because of almost no salles.


http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313...

Hmmm... too many 35 % listings to count. No sales? I doubt that very much: where there's supply there's demand.


Yes, online it's easy. I was talking localy, where I live.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Commercial-Grade-Hydrogen-Peroxide...
Online, this is probalby the best offer out there for people here in Europe.
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