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Imagine you are working in the lab, and your labmate Jordan has challenged you to figure out which one of the  following acetic acid/sodium acetate buffer solutions has the greatest buffering capacity at a pH above 4.74. pKa(acetic acid) = 4.74. Can you pick the solution with the highest buffering capacity at a pHabove 4.74? pKa(acetic acid) ?     0.36 M acetic acid and 0.12 M sodium acetate         0.16 M acetic acid and 0.12 M sodium acetate         0.36 M acetic acid and 0.22 M sodium acetate         0.16 M acetic acid and 0.22 M sodium acetate

Imagine you are working in the lab, and your labmate Jordan has challenged you to figure out which one of the  following acetic acid/sodium acetate buffer solutions has the greatest buffering capacity at a pH above 4.74. pKa(acetic acid) = 4.74. Can you pick the solution with the highest buffering capacity at a pHabove 4.74? pKa(acetic acid) ?     0.36 M acetic acid and 0.12 M sodium acetate         0.16 M acetic acid and 0.12 M sodium acetate         0.36 M acetic acid and 0.22 M sodium acetate         0.16 M acetic acid and 0.22 M sodium acetate

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Imagine you are working in the lab, and your labmate Jordan has challenged you to figure out which one of the  following acetic acid/sodium acetate buffer solutions has the greatest buffering capacity at a pH above 4.74. pKa(acetic acid) = 4.74. Can you pick the solution with the highest buffering capacity at a pHabove 4.74? pKa(acetic acid) ? 
 

 
0.36 M acetic acid and 0.12 M sodium acetate
 
 
 
 
0.16 M acetic acid and 0.12 M sodium acetate
 
 
 
 
0.36 M acetic acid and 0.22 M sodium acetate
 
 
 

 
0.16 M acetic acid and 0.22 M sodium acetate 
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