Titration

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The process, operation, or method of determining the concentration of a substance in solution by adding to it a standard reagent of known concentration in carefully measured amounts until a reaction of definite and known proportion is completed, as shown by a color change or by electrical measurement, and then calculating the unknown concentration.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The determination of the concentration of some substance in a solution by slowly adding measured amounts of some other substance (normally using a burette) until a reaction is shown to be complete, for instance by the colour change of an indicator.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act or process of titrating; a substance obtained by titrating.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In analytical chem., a process for ascertaining the quantity of any given constituent present in a compound by observing the quantity of a liquid of known strength (called a standard solution) necessary to convert the constituent into another form, the close of the reaction being marked by some definite phenomenon, usually a change of color or the formation of a precipitate. Also called volumetric analysis.
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  • n. a measured amount of a solution of unknown concentration is added to a known volume of a second solution until the reaction between them is just complete; the concentration of the unknown solution (the titer) can then be calculated
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