Thursday, December 15, 2011

What would happen to the pH value if you mix equal amounts of a strong acid and a strong base.?

Plus what would happen if you mixed equal amounts of a strong acid and a weak base.





Please help me..|||Two opposites will be neutralized. The pH will be seven because that is a lucky number. And it is lucky you neutralized both. If one was left over it would start bragging and going on yapping. If it was an acid, it would turn you sour on the whole process. And if it was the base, you would just be bitter. And who wants that?


Seriously neutralizing would depend if the strong acid was sulfuric acid which would take twice as much base as the other monoprotic strong acids. The second acidic hydrogen on sulfuric acid is not strong, resulting in a final pH of the neutralized solution that is not 7.|||Strong acid and strong base would neutralize one another and you would get a pH = 7 (neutral pH)





Strong acid and weak base would tend towards an acid pH (around pH = 2)

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