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Given information

Here the given information is:

The concentration of propanoic acid  

The concentration of potassium propanoate  

 

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

The scale, introduced by Sorensen is used for expressing the concentration of hydronium ions in a solution.

Here propanoic acid-potassium propanoate is an acidic buffer. The buffer that is obtained by mixing solutions of a weak acid and its salt from a strong base in suitable proportions can be defined as an acidic buffer.

 

The expression that is used to find out the  of an acidic buffer can be shown as:

 

 

The negative logarithm to the base of is denoted as .

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Principles of Chemistry Molecular Approach
3rd Edition, 2014
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ISBN: 9780321971944

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