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A buffer contains significant amounts of ammonia and ammonium chloride. - enter

ID: 636149 • Letter: A

Question

A buffer contains significant amounts of ammonia and ammonium chloride. - enter an equation showing how this buffer neutralizes added aqueous base (KOH) express your answer as a chemical equation. Identify all of the phases in your answer. A buffer contains significant amounts of ammonia and ammonium chloride. - enter an equation showing how this buffer neutralizes added aqueous base (KOH) express your answer as a chemical equation. Identify all of the phases in your answer. - enter an equation showing how this buffer neutralizes added aqueous base (KOH) express your answer as a chemical equation. Identify all of the phases in your answer.

Explanation / Answer

Base KOH reacts with acid part of buffer. This equation is shown below . We ignore spectator ions K+ and Cl-. Hence NH4Cl is shown as NH4+ and KOH is shown as OH-.

NH4^+ (aq) + OH- (aq) <----> NH3 (aq) + H2O (l)