You determine that it takes 26.0 mL of base to neutralize a sample of your unknown acid solution. The pH of the solution was 7.82 when exactly 13 mL of base had been added. What is the pKa of your unknown acid?

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You determine that it takes 26.0 mL of base to neutralize a sample of your unknown acid solution. The pH of the solution was 7.82 when exactly 13 mL of base had been added, you notice that the concentration of the unknown acid was 0.1 M. What is the pKa of your unknown acid?

The pK_a value is

Explanation:

From the question we are told

    The volume of base is  

     The pH of solution is  

      The concentration of the acid is

From the pH we can see that the titration is between a strong base and a weak acid

 Let assume that the the volume of acid is  

Generally the concentration of base

Substituting value  

When 13mL of the base is added a buffer is formed

The chemical equation of the reaction is

Now before the reaction the number of mole of base is  

Substituting value  

Now before the reaction the number of mole of acid is  

Substituting value  

Now after the reaction the number of moles of  base is  zero  i.e has been used up

    this mathematically represented as

    The  number of moles of acid is  

The pH of this reaction can be mathematically represented as

Substituting values

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