How to find the pH when adding unknown amounts of weak acid into known amounts of strong base??
Titrate 25mL of 0.1M NaOH with Butanoic acid, the Ka = 1.5*10^-5.
Determine the pH when 5mL of HBut is added.
Titrate 25mL of 0.1M NaOH with Butanoic acid, the Ka = 1.5*10^-5.
Determine the pH when 5mL of HBut is added.
1 Answer
It could be done if the concentration of the acid is known from the start. The
This is why we react strong base INTO weak acid, not the other way around.
Suppose it was
#"pOH" = -log["OH"^(-)] = 1#
and
#color(black)("pH") = 14 - 1 = color(blue)(13)#
Then you react weak acid into strong base? Well...
#"0.1 mol"/"L" xx "0.005 L" = "0.0005 mols butanoic acid"#
#"0.1 mol"/"L" xx "0.025 L" = "0.0025 mols OH"^(-)#
That means only
The
#"A"^(-) + "H"_2"O"(l) rightleftharpoons "HA"(aq) + "OH"^(-)(aq)#
#K_b = K_w/K_a = 10^(-14)/(1.5 xx 10^(-5)) = 6.67 xx 10^(-10)#
#= (["HA"]["OH"^(-)])/(["A"^(-)]) = x^2/("0.0005 mols A"^(-)/"0.030 L" - x)#
#~~ x^2/("0.0167 M")#
Hence,
#x = 3.34 xx 10^(-6) "M OH"^(-)# from#"A"^(-)#
But since that is on the order of
#("0.0020 mols OH"^(-) + "negligible OH"^(-) "from " "A"^(-))/"0.030 L" = "0.067 M"#
And so, the
#"pOH" = -log["OH"^(-)] = 1.18#
and
#color(blue)("pH") = 14 - 1.18 = color(blue)(12.82)#