I have some few questions
1) Increasing the temperature of the propanoic acid solution causes the pH to decrease.
What does this tell you about the enthalpy of dissociation?
2) Why is an indicator usually added in iodine/thiosulphate titrations but not in titrations involving potassium managanate (VII)?
1) According to the information given an increase in temperature causes the pH to decrease. Decrease in pH implies the solution becomes more acidic, i.e there is more H
+ present in the solution.
Hence we can deduce that an increase in temperature has caused propanoic acid to dissociate more. In other words the enthalpy change is
endothermic. this is because according to
Hess's law, an increase in temperature will cause the equilibrium to shift so as to oppose the change which is in this case decrease temperature.
Since the forward reaction for dissociation was favoured, dissociation is an endothermic process.
2) Iodine and thiosulfate are colourless compounds which will react together to form colourless solutions. Hence we will never be able to identify the end-point unless an indicator is used.
Potassium Manganate however is purple in colour and will turn colourless as it is being titrated. Therefore the point at which the solution changes from purple to colourless will be the end-point. This can be observed with our own bare eyes.
Hope it helps