Striving+for+Accuracy+and+Precision

Reflection:

TITRATIONS TITRATIONS TITRATIONS! I've done them a couple of times. A few times in a summer camp where I took a course on nutrition. A couple times in biology. And again in chemistry! In chemistry we determined the concentration of a base when we added it to a base. We used VERY precise measurement tools to measure __exactly__ 10 mL of acid, to read to the __hundredths__ place! In doing this experiment we strived for so much precision in accuracy in measuring out exact amounts acids and bases and my parter (Tara) and I tried not to be sloppy in our work. This partly had to do with the fact that we had plenty of time, so there was no rush.

As you can guess, I have a lot of experience with titrations so before we started I already knew that I would have to be very very patient and make sure every single drop was dropped slowly into the solution, and we made sure to do just that. Of course at first, our solutions were much to on the hot pink side of pink (i guess impatience is a weakness of mine). With practice, we achieved the same shade of lilac that the potion *"Draught of Living Dead" achieves in Harry Potter.

Here is a picture of Tara's and my concentration:



*Draught of the Living Death:

