Why, when an ammonia solution is titrated with a strong acid, the #pH# remains relatively constant up to the addition of a stoichiometric quantity of the acid?
1 Answer
Because you have described formation of a buffer solution.........
Explanation:
A
This is seen from the well-known buffer equation, the which we may represent as:
Where
In this ammoniacal scenario, the free base is the uncharged species, the ammonia, and the ammonium acid is charged:
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