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chemistry's slow striptease, drop by drop, until everything changes in a single decisive instant
means Titration is a lab technique where you slowly add a measured amount of one solution to another until a reaction reaches its exact endpoint, letting you calculate an unknown concentration.
from From the French 'titre,' meaning the 'title,' 'standard,' or 'fineness' of something — originally the assayed purity of gold or silver. That 'titre' traces back through Old French to Latin 'titulus,' an inscription or label. Chemists borrowed the word in the 19th century: to 'titrate' was literally to determine the standard or strength of a solution, drop by careful drop.
- endpoint
- one extra drop flips the whole color
- indicators
- phenolphthalein blushes pink past neutral
- precision
- burettes measure to a hundredth of a milliliter
- medicine
- dosing drugs upward by careful increments borrows the name
- origins
- from French titre, meaning fineness of gold
karl fischer titration — determining water content in substances like pharmaceuticals and oils using iodine, developed 1935