BATCH A 25 mL 0.00 mL USED

Protocol IH-9 · titration of the sample

Add reagent until the endpoint: the flask turns from pale yellow to pink and the colour stays. Record the reading then. If it turns dark magenta, you've overshot and the sample is ruined.

C (mg/L) = V × 0.80 × 25 / Vsample

Regulatory limit: 12.0 mg/L. Three batches, three separate aliquots.

Aliquots

Laboratory notebook

BatchV sampleV usedC
Flask ready. Open the stopcock.
Municipal Hygiene Laboratory · 1955
THE PRESERVES FILE
00:000 of 3 batches titrated
Outbreak in the Marina district — forty-two affected

THREE BATCHES

Three batches have arrived from the factory, and you need to say which one is over the limit. There's no instrument for this: you measure drop by drop, until the flask changes colour, and you record how much reagent it took. Overshoot by a single drop and you ruin the sample — and each batch only has three aliquots.

Laboratory report