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finding litres from change in pH?
« on: May 19, 2009, 05:18:31 PM »
Any help on how I would figure this out would be great! (It's regarding some Geology well work)

So: there's 15,000 L HCL with a 30% concentration, which is a 9.45M and a pH of -1

Then we add H2O with a pH of 7.4 (which has a 0.000000298 M of HCL).

For the entire solution to change to a pH of 6.4, how much H2O was added???

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Re: finding litres from change in pH?
« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2009, 06:47:48 PM »
pH of 0.000000298 HCl is below 7, definitely not 7.4.

Basically this is a simple mass balance - assume x L was added, calculate number of moles in the final solution, same number of moles have been introduced into solution - and it is sum of moles in both initial solutions. That gives one equation and one unknown. But as the data is incorrect, don't expect correct results.
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Re: finding litres from change in pH?
« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2009, 11:24:46 PM »
Whoops, I misunderstood that M part, that can be ignored.  Thanks though, got it figured out now!

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