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You need to prepare 100.0 mL of a pH=4.00 buffer solution using 0.100 M benzoic acid (pKa = 4.20) and 0.220 M sodium benzoate. How much of each solution should be mixed to prepare this buffer?
a) mL of benzoic acid
b) mL of sodium benzoate
Let volume of sodium benzoate =x
volume of benzoic acid = 100-x
no of moles of sodium benzoate = molarity * volume
= 0.22*x
no of moles of bezoic acid = molarity * volume
= 0.1*(100-x)
PH = PKa +log[sodium benzoate]/[benzoic acid]
4 = 4.2 + log0.22*x/0.1*(100-x)
4-4.2 = log0.22*x/0.1*(100-x)
-0.2 = log0.22*x/0.1*(100-x)
log0.22*x/0.1*(100-x) = -0.2
0.22*x/0.1*(100-x) = 10-0.2 = 0.63
0.22*x/0.1*(100-x) = 0.63
0.22*x = 0.63*0.1(100-x)
= 0.063(100-x)
0.22x =6.3-0.063x
0.22x-6.3+0.063x =0
0.263x-6.3 =0
0.263x = 6.3
x = 6.3/0.263 = 23.95
volume of benzoic acid = 23.95ml
volume of benzoate = 100-x = 100-23.95 = 76.05ml