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Acidic buffer

Question

A volume of 50.00 mL of a weak acid of unknown concentration is titrated with 0.10 M solution of NaOH. The equivalence point is reached after 39.30 mL of NaOH solution has been added. At the half-equivalence point (19.65 mL), the pH is 4.85. Thus, initial concentrations of the acid and its $p K_{a}$ values are

Difficult

A

[HA] initial ${pK}_{a}$
0.1 M 4.85
B

[HA] initial ${pK}_{a}$
0.079 M 2.93
C

[HA] initial ${pK}_{a}$
0.1 M 3.70
D

[HA] initial ${pK}_{a}$
0.079 M 4.85

Solution

$\underset{Acid}{M_{1} V_{1}} = \underset{Base}{M_{2} V_{2}}$
$M_{1} \times 50.0 = 0.10 \times 39.30 ∴ M_{1} = \frac{0.10 \times 39.30}{50} = 0.0786 M$
When half-equivalence point is reached
$[HA] = [A^{-}]$
$pH = {pK}_{a} + \log \frac{[A^{-}]}{[HA]}$
$∴ pH = {pK}_{a} = 4.85$

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