Question

When titrating a strong acid with a strong base, after the equivalence point is reached, the pH will be determined exclusively by: Select the correct answer below:
A) hydronium concentration
B) hydroxide concentration
C) conjugate base concentration
D) conjugate acid concentration

Answer 1

Answer:

B) hydroxide concentration

Explanation:

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In this case, since we are talking about strong both base and acid, since the base is the titrant and the acid the analyte, once the equivalence point has been reached, some additional base could be added before the experimenter realizes about it, therefore, since the titrant is a strong base, it completely dissociates in hydroxide ions and metallic ions which allows us to compute the pOH of the solution by known the hydroxide ions concentration.

After that, due to the fact that the pH is related with the pOH as shown below:

pH=14-pOH

We can directly compute the pH.

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