Answer to Question #82652 in General Chemistry for Ross

Question

Commercial hydrogen peroxide solutions contain small amounts of organic compounds that are added to stabilize it. If these compounds react with permanganate, how would this affect your results?

Answer 1

If the organic compounds reacted with the permanganate, you would need to add more permanganate to cancel these out. This would mean you would calculate a higher number of moles of peroxide, thus making your concentrations higher than they should be.