The answer is 8 :)
All nobel gases have 8 outer electrons.
Explanation:
The solution of the lactic acd and sodium lactate is referred to as a buffer solution.
A buffer solution is an aqueous solution consisting of a mixture of a weak acid and its conjugate base, or vice versa. In this case, the weak acid is the lactic acid and the conjugate base is the sodium lactate.
Buffer solutions are generally known to resist change in pH values.
When a strong base (in this case, NaOH) is added to the buffer, the lactic acid will give up its H+ in order to transform the base (OH-) into water (H2O) and the conjugate base, so we have:
HA + OH- → A- + H2O.
Since the added OH- is consumed by this reaction, the pH will change only slightly.
The NaOH reacts with the weak acid present in the buffer sollution.
The reaction is a hydrogenation reaction of an alkene, and its equation is:
C₂H₄(g) + H₂(g) → C₂H₆(g)
Therefore, this reaction can be sped up just as any other irreversible reaction may have its rate increased, by increasing temperature and pressure to increase the effective collisions of molecules.
