The purpose of this lab was to determine the mass of sodium bicarbonate, Na3HCO3, in a tablet of Alka Seltzer by massing and dissolving fragments of the tablet in 6M HCL. A hypothesis was that the actual concentration of Na3HCO3 in the Alka Seltzer tablet is less than the label lists.
Using a basin filled with water, a buret, and a closed Erlenmeyer flask connected to the buret by tubing, massed