As you go on adding more acid, the red will eventually become so dominant that you can no longe see any yellow.
There is a gradual smooth change from one colour to the other, taking place over a range of pH. As a rough "rule of thumb", the visible change takes place about 1 pH unit either side of the pK ind value. The litmus colour change happens over an unusually wide range, but it is useful for detecting acids and alkalis in the lab because it changes colour around pH 7.
Methyl orange or phenolphthalein would be less useful. For example, methyl orange would be yellow in any solution with a pH greater than 4. It couldn't distinguish between a weak acid with a pH of 5 or a strong alkali with a pH of Remember that the equivalence point of a titration is where you have mixed the two substances in exactly equation proportions.
You obviously need to choose an indicator which changes colour as close as possible to that equivalence point. That varies from titration to titration. The next diagram shows the pH curve for adding a strong acid to a strong base.
Superimposed on it are the pH ranges for methyl orange and phenolphthalein. However, the graph is so steep at that point that there will be virtually no difference in the volume of acid added whichever indicator you choose. However, it would make sense to titrate to the best possible colour with each indicator.
If you use phenolphthalein, you would titrate until it just becomes colourless at pH 8. On the other hand, using methyl orange, you would titrate until there is the very first trace of orange in the solution. If the solution becomes red, you are getting further from the equivalence point. This time it is obvious that phenolphthalein would be completely useless. However, methyl orange starts to change from yellow towards orange very close to the equivalence point.
This time, the methyl orange is hopeless! However, the phenolphthalein changes colour exactly where you want it to. The curve is for a case where the acid and base are both equally weak - for example, ethanoic acid and ammonia solution. In other cases, the equivalence point will be at some other pH. You can see that neither indicator is any use. Phenolphthalein will have finished changing well before the equivalence point, and methyl orange falls off the graph altogether.
It may be possible to find an indicator which starts to change or finishes changing at the equivalence point, but because the pH of the equivalence point will be different from case to case, you can't generalise. On the whole, you would never titrate a weak acid and a weak base in the presence of an indicator. This is an interesting special case. If you use phenolphthalein or methyl orange, both will give a valid titration result - but the value with phenolphthalein will be exactly half the methyl orange one.
It so happens that the phenolphthalein has finished its colour change at exactly the pH of the equivalence point of the first half of the reaction in which sodium hydrogencarbonate is produced. The methyl orange changes colour at exactly the pH of the equivalence point of the second stage of the reaction.
If this is the first set of questions you have done, please read the introductory page before you start. How simple indicators work Indicators as weak acids Litmus Litmus is a weak acid. The un-ionised litmus is red, whereas the ion is blue. Phenolphtalein is chosen because it changes color in a pH range between 8. It will appear pink in basic solutions and clear in acidic solutions. It is known as the titrant. If excess base is present at the end of an acid-base titration, the pink phenolphthalein color fades if the solution is allowed to stand for a while.
This slow fading is of no consequence to the titration. Phenolphthalein is a potent laxative, which acts within 6—8 hours; its effects may last 3—4 days. Explanation: When the sodium hydroxide, which is a base, is mixed with phenolphthalein, it turns pink.
When the base is neutralized by the acid, citric acid, which is present in lemons, the pink solution turns colorless. When enough carbonic acid is formed it neutralizes the lime water, which is a base and makes the solution an acid. Therefore with the phenolphthalein, the color disappears in the now acidic solution. The rate of the fading of phenolphthalein depends on ionic strength or the ion concentration of the reaction solutions.
The concentration of OH- ions is very large compared to the concentration of phenolphthalein. The solution changing from basic to acidic will cause the phenolphthalein to change from pink to clear. The dissociation of the weak acid indicator causes the solution to change color. A pH indicator is a substance that changes color in response to a chemical change. A drop of indicator solution is added to the titration at the start; when the color changes the endpoint has been reached, this is an approximation of the equivalence point.
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Phenolphthalein pronounced fee-nawl-thal-een , often abbreviated to phph, is a weak acid. This mildly acidic compound is a white to yellow crystalline solid. It easily dissolves in alcohols and is slightly soluble in water.
Phenolphthalein is a large organic molecule with the chemical formula of C 20 H 14 O 4. Ionization occurs when a molecule gains or loses electrons, and this gives the molecule a negative or positive electric charge. Ionized molecules attract other molecules with the opposite charge and repel those with the same charge. Phenolphthalein is a weak acid and is colorless in solution although its ion is pink.
Adding hydroxide ions OH - , as found in bases will change the phenolphthalein into its ion and turn the solution pink. The phenolphthalein indicator has two different structures based on whether it is in an alkali pink or acid colorless solution. Both structures absorb light in the ultra-violet region, a region not accessible for the human eye. However, the pink form also absorbs in the visible light spectrum.
The reason for the visible light absorption is the structure of the pink form of the phenolphthalein indicator. Due to ionization, the electrons in the molecule are more delocalized than in the colorless form.
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