Question

I’m performing a lab where we must determine the percent of carbonate in an unknown through titration. I need to know how doing this experiment applies in the real world. Could someone help me understand this experiment through real-world examples?

Answer 1

There are many metals found in their carbonate form in the earth crust. to extract the metal we have to remove it from its carbonate form. That can be done when we know the amount of carbonate precent. The carbonate composition in a compound also let us know the total mass of the compound with which the other element can be guessed. Like Calcium, it is found in the form of CaCO₃. To extract calcium from it we need to determine the percent of carbonate, with which it will be easier to know that calcium extraction is going to be economical or not.