Achemistry graduate student is given 300. ml of a 1.80 m nitrous acid (hno_2) solution. nitrous acis is a weak acid with k_a = 4.5 times 10^-4. what mass of nano_2 should the student dissolve in the hno_2 solution to turn it into a buffer with ph = 2.94? you may assume that the volume of the solution doesn't change when the nano_2 is dissolved in it. be sure your answer has a unit symbol, and round it to 2 significant digits.

Astudent is given a sample of a blue copper sulfate hydrate. he weighs the sample in a dry covered porcelain crucible and got a mass of 23.875 g for the crucible, lid, and sample. the mass of the empty crucible and lid was found earlier to be 22.652 g. he then heats the crucible to expel the water of hydration, keeping the crucible at red heat for 10 minutes with the lid slightly ajar. on colling, he finds the mass of crucible, lid, and contents to be 23.403 g. the sample was changed in the process to very light clue anhydrous cuso4. if there are again 100.0 g of hydrate, how many grams of cuso4 are in it? how many moles of cuso4? (hint: molar mass of cuso4 = 159.6 g / mole. what per cent of the hydrate is cuso4? you may convert the mass of cuso4 to moles.)