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Titration of Acetic Acid and Sodium Hydroxide

Bruce Heath  Follow
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My tutor says to assume pKw = 1.0 * 10^-14

This is not answer to the question "what is pKw"?  ;) And you are probably wrong - I strongly doubt you quoted your tutor correctly.

Do you understand the difference between Kw and pKw?

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Dan Dunay  Follow
1/2 (10^-14) + 1/2 (4.76) + 1/2 log 0.047M.

Comes up to around 1.72. I think that there's something wrong with the calculation of the concentration of sodium acetate.

a) 0.095M * 0.0231L = 2.1945 * 10^-3 mol of sodium acetate
b) conc of CH3COONa at equivalence point = (2.1945 * 10^-3 mol)/vol of CH3COONa
    conc of CH3COONa at equivalence point = (2.1945 * 10^-3 mol)/0.0467L
    conc of CH3COONa at equivalence point = 0.047M

vol of CH3COONa = Vol of acetic acid + Vol of NaOH
vol of CH3COONa = 0.025L + (2.1945*10^-3)/0.101M
vol of CH3COONa at equivalence point = 0.0467L

I am not sure if this makes sense... this is the first introductory chemistry module I have taken in a few years and I have found it pretty difficult to wrap my head around concepts like pH, pKa and the like.

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BPS Glass  Follow
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c) Then using the equation pH = 1/2pKw + 1/2pKa + 1/2logc, calculate the pH at the equivalence point. (my pH comes out to about 1.86 here which is totally off the expected value)

That's not what I got, list all values you used.

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Andy C  Follow
Oh... I get it now. No wonder I've been getting such a low pH value! I got mixed up with the two. Just another question - How do I calculate the total concentration of the following:

What is the total concentration (mol/L) of 3.4g of sodium acetate mixed with 30mL of 1.0M acetic acid?

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Collince Becky  Follow
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What is the total concentration (mol/L) of 3.4g of sodium acetate mixed with 30mL of 1.0M acetic acid?

This is ambiguous, as it doesn't state total concentration of what.

But in the context of buffers we often say things like "0.1 M buffer" and it is intended to mean "sum of concentrations of HAcetate and Acetate- is 0.1 M".

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Andrew Yap  Follow
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1/2 (10^-14)

What is pKw?

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Dan L. Oom  Follow
My tutor says to assume pKw = 1.0 * 10^-14

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