If you are given sodium acetate and asked to make a 0.15 m acetate buffer and titrate it to a final ph of 3.7, will you have to add acid, base, or nothing in order to achieve the proper ph? why?

We need add acid to prepare 0.15 acetate buffer with pH 3.7.

Explanation:

As we know that buffer solution is the combination of weak acid with strong base or strong acid with weak base.

We know that CH3COOH is weak acid .Acetate buffer is the combination of weak acid CH3COOH and conjucate base CH3COO- (from salt).

So we have to add acid to achieve the proper final pH value of mixture.We need add acid to prepare 0.15 acetate buffer with pH 3.7.

the correct answer is b. a strong acid completely dissociates to its ions when dissolved in water. completely dissociates to and ions. a is incorrect because does not fully ionize to and ions and some remain as the compound . c and d are incorrect because, and do not fall into the category of bronsted lowry acids. a bronsted lowry acid is a proton donor and since both molecules do not have a proton to donate they are not bronsted lowry acids. likewise,   if we use the lewis acid definition, they cannot be acids. a lewis acid is an electron pair acceptor. both and have a complete octet so can not accept any electrons which disqualifies them as acids.

b) nuclear ive learned that in a pedtrodic table