Titration Terminology

[MedPR]

"Substance X is titrated against substance Y..."

Who is in the beaker and who is in the buret? I just did a passage and got a bunch of questions wrong because I didn't know which was which 👎

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[SaintJude]

weird english...TBR?

Usually I see "substance A is titrated with Substance B." Where B is the substance in the buret being added to solution A.

So I would assume if "with" means the same as "against", Substance Y is in the buret.

 

[Onscene]

X is in the beaker. Think about which is the titrant, as opposed to which is being titrated

 

[MedPR]

weird english...TBR?

Usually I see "substance A is titrated with Substance B." Where B is the substance in the buret being added to solution A.

So I would assume if "with" means the same as "against", Substance Y is in the buret.

EK, actually. Yea that's what I usually see too.

 

[SaintJude]

If this stresses you out and you want a definite answer, search AAMC board for questions with titration and look up the grammar used for that problem. AAMC doesn't change grammar for set-up questions.

If the say "substance A is titrated with Substance B". They'll always phrase it like that.

 

[MedPR]

If this stresses you out and you want a definite answer, search AAMC board for questions with titration and look up the grammar used for that problem. AAMC doesn't change grammar for set-up questions.

If the say "substance A is titrated with Substance B". They'll always phrase it like that.

Ok. So "substance A is titrated with substance B" implies that substance A is in the beaker and substance B is in the buret.

 

[gettheleadout]

Ok. So "substance A is titrated with substance B" implies that substance A is in the beaker and substance B is in the buret.

Yes, that's the way I've always known it as well.