Science is way to broad of a subject to define a specific thing you are doing. It is the equivalent of someone asking what book you are reading and you replying, "a novel." Your experiment could also have life-changing effects on someone, so to underrate it as "doing science" would simply be inaccurate.
Solution :
Time (sec) Volume of NaOH (mL)
339 26.23
1242 27.80
2745 29.70
4546 3.81
39.81
Now the example of the first order kinetics w.r.t volumetric analysis is :

Here, 

= volume at time 0 = 0
Since the interval is not constant, we take the time interval as


= 1402.3333
≈ 1402 seconds


= 0.001643 x 0.52045
= 0.00082

Therefore, the first order rate constant is k
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GG | Gg
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Gg | gg
To determine the moles in 40 grams of magnesium, we need the atomic weight. This can easily be found on a periodic table. For this problem, let's use 24.305 grams/mole.
We are going to set up an equation to determine this problem. In this equation, we want all our units to cancel out except for 'moles.'

In this, we can see that the unit 'grams' will cancel out to leave us with moles.
In solving the equation, we determine that there are approximately 1.65 moles of Magnesium.