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Trends in pKb for both acetic acid and water
I am trying to rationalise a result that I have recently measured in the lab. I'm measuring the pKb of different compounds in anhydrous acetic acid, using the procedure outlined in this paper (https://...
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Question about the differences of white and grey NaH properties
We are having some problems with the next reaction in our lab. As you can see, is the sulfonylation of an indole in which we use NaH (60% dispersion in mineral oil) as a base. This reaction goes with ...
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Can pure hydronium exist?
Can pure hydronium exist? If not, why not? It seems to me (and I am no chemistry expert) like pure hydronium should have the theoretical maximum acidity or minimum pH that a substance can reach.
Can't,...
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pKa and pKb in solvents other than water
I know that when you have aqueous solutions, then the pKa and the pKb are linked to each other (pKa + pKb = 14). Is there an equivalent relationship between pKa and pKb in non aqueous environments? I'...
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Can I use a mechanical pipette to transfer strong acid?
I am an undergraduate student majoring in physics. I am looking for the best method to accurately measure the volume of strong acids like hydrobromic $(w(\ce{HBr(aq)}) = 48\,\%)$ and hydroiodic $(w(\...
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Why does the pH of very strong NaOH solutions not make sense? [duplicate]
I'm wondering why the pH of extreme alkaline solutions, such as the case with $\pu{10 M}$ $\ce{NaOH}$ does not make practical sense and I'm wondering why this is the case? Refer to my calculations ...
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Why is the pH of this ammonia solution more acidic than another ammonia solution?
I made two similar ammonia solutions in different ways, and they resulted in different pH, but i'm not sure why.
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Added 5.84 g NaCl to a 500 mL flask. Then added 10 mL 25% ammonia solution. ...
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Mechanism of the blue bottle experiment
I have researched multiple mechanisms for this experiment yet all of them suggest different versions or are too vague. None of them are consistent since the final overall equation seems to be missing ...
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Difference between change of enthalpy of neutralization between copper and manganese carbonate
I was doing a calorimetry experiment to calculate the change in enthalpy during neutralization reactions between metal carbonates and hydrochloric acid. I experimented with 5 metal carbonates: ...
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How useful is thymol blue (acid) as an indicator?
The pH range of thymol blue (acid) is 1.2-2.8.. This pH range seems pretty useless. Generally, the sudden change in pH for SA-SB titration occurs in the range of 4-10; the sudden change in pH for SA-...
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How to make a thin layer of crystalline barium titanate on copper substrate?
Is it possible to create a thin $\ce{BaTiO3}$ crystal layer on a copper plate by putting the plate in a beaker, pouring in heated hydrofluoric acid that has been saturated with $\ce{BaTiO3}$ powder ...
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What is the product of the following reaction(different sources give different answers) [closed]
$$\ce{FeS +dil HNO3}$$
$$\ce{FeS +conc HNO3}$$
I got different answers to these reactions in different sources
Source1 Jd lee:
Source 2 Op Tandon:
Can anyone please explain which is the correct one ...
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Will concentration of sodium hydroxide affect the result of chicken feather hydrolyzate if i don't standardized it?
The title of the paper:
Isolation and characterization of keratin from chicken feathers https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0002792
Here is the method:
Keratin was isolated by dissolving 5g of chicken feather ...
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Why is carbonic acid often ignored?
Water (distilled or not) picks up CO2 from the atmosphere, some of which dissolves to form carbonic acid (H2CO3), lowering the pH by a point or two.
From that it seems like carbonic acid would be the ...
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Can ferrous ions exist in an acidic solution?
Can Fe2+ ions exist in an acidic solution or will they always pick up available protons and become Fe3+? My hunch is they can't exist but I'm not really sure.
If the latter, does that mean that ...
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What might cause overestimated measured pH value of sodium hydroxide solution pumped with carbon dioxide?
I tried an experiment at home where I had a $\ce{CO2}$ tank pumping $\ce{CO2}$ into a solution of $\pu{28 g}$ sodium hydroxide in $\pu{200 ml}$ water. The initial $\mathrm{pH}$ was $11.24.$
I expected ...
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NaOH + atmospheric CO2: Unexpected results troubleshooting
I've conducted an experiment where a solution of $\pu{4.2 M}$ $\ce{NaOH}$ was left exposed to atmospheric $\ce{CO2}$ for a period of time and titrated using potentiometric titration and potassium ...
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How to Test Auto-Ionization of Ammonia
I was wondering how we could test that the auto-ionization of liquid ammonia actually occurs experimentally. The chemical equation is described below:
$\ce{NH_3 <=> NH_4^+ + NH_2^-}$
I was ...
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I have contradictory results in a research paper, how do I proceed with my analysis?
I am performing a simple acid-base titration investigating the efficency of different pure antacid compounds, and in my results, I found out that NaHCO3 neutralized the fastest (using a pH by time ...
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Why are some weak acid equilibrium approximations invalid in very dilute solutions?
Using two approximations for the dissociation of a weak acid, we can write
$$K_\mathrm{a}= \frac{[\ce{H+(aq)}]^2}{[\ce{HA(aq)}]}$$
One of these two approximations we use is that the concentration of ...
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Effect of dilution on weak acids pH [closed]
My textbook has a question which says what would happen to the pH of a weak acid if it is diluted with water. The answer is its pH would decrease.
My teacher’s argument is that it would indeed ...
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Weak acid titration curve [duplicate]
At the beginning of a weak acid titration curve (when titrated with a strong base), there is a sharp increase of pH before it levels out more due to the buffer solution that will occur. But why is ...
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Difference in titration curves
In my titration curve for HCl being titrated with NaOH, the initial pH-value was plotted as 2.1 according to a pH-meter. When I found the equivalence point and calculated the concentration of HCl, it ...
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Can a weak acid react to give a stronger acid? [closed]
I was trying to understand why $\ce{AgCl}$ does not dissolve in $\ce{HNO3}$ and the reaction I could think of was something like this:
$$\ce{AgCl + HNO3->AgNO3 + HCl}$$
I could not understand why ...
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Acid boric preparation [closed]
Is there a simple reaction to yield boric acid ($\ce{H3BO3}$) from boron trifluoride ($\ce{BF3}$)?
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How Do I Determine The Strength Of Two Ammonia Solutions Using Titration Methods? [closed]
Two housewives disagreed on the strength of an ammonium cleaning agent. Housewife A thought that her brand was more effective than the brand used by housewife B. Plan and design an experiment that ...
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Order of adding reactants on growth of Cu
I am reading the following paper which details the steps to control growth of Copper. They fabricate Copper powders from $\ce{CuNO3, NaOH, and C6H8O6}$. Specifically, in this paper they add the sodium ...
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Why is the experimental pH of vinegar (acetic acid) so much higher than expected?
I bought some sodium hydroxide on Amazon and went about titrating solutions I make with it.
As I'm an amateur chemist at home, I have limited tools. A pad of paper, some 5% acetic acid vinegar, and ...
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What is the relative rate of diffusion of ammonia to hydrogen chloride, both in gaseous states? [closed]
I encountered this problem during an assignment:
I answered it as C, but the assignment grader marked it as wrong and indicated that A is correct.
I asked another instructor about it and gave me a ...
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what catalyst to use for the reaction between AgNO3 and NaCl? [closed]
What is the best catalyst to use for the reaction between AgNO3 and NaCl that would result in a change in activation of energy so therefore more precipitate formed. Please give me the ways I can ...
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