Appendix 4: Experimental Techniques
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Using a burette
The reagents will be in a burette and before proceeding you need to familiarize yourself with the proper procedure for using a burette. Remember, a burette is a TD (To Deliver) device and the scale is upside down.
The following YouTube from Georgia Highland College goes over the techniques for reading a burette.
Video \(\PageIndex{2}\): 0:48 video uploaded by GHS on reading a burette (https://youtu.be/uYMMJuackzo)
In figure \(\PageIndex{1}\) we defined two reagent flasks and a reaction flask, but in reality you can use one of the reagent flasks as the reactant flask. You need to carefully mark each flask, and you might want to use a beaker for one of the solutions, so the potassium iodide, and an Erlenmeyer flask for the other (ferric nitrate), and then pour from the beaker into the Erlenmeyer flask, and once the solutions are mixed, it becomes the reaction flask.