Suppose you need to prepare 21.0 mL of formate buffer with a ratio of 4 of [sodium formate]/[formic acid] by mixing 0.10 M formic acid and 0.10 M sodium formate. How many milliliters of sodium formate do you need to measure to make this buffer (assuming the rest is formic acid)

A volume of 20.49 milliliters of sodium formate do you need to measure to make this buffer (assuming the rest is formic acid).

Explanation:

Given: Total volume of the buffer = 21.0 mL

... (1)

It is assumed that the volume of HCOONa is x. Hence, volume of HCOOH is (21.0 - x) mL.

Hence,

[HCOONa] = Molarity Volume

= 0.10 x

= 0.1x mmol

Similarly, [HCOOH] = Molarity Volume

= 0.10 (21.0 - x) mmol

Using equation (1),

As x is the volume of sodium formate. Hence, 20.49 mL of sodium formate is required to make the buffer.

Thus, we can conclude that a volume of 20.49 milliliters of sodium formate do you need to measure to make this buffer (assuming the rest is formic acid).

a). in this case, dh> 0 and sd> 0. if t becomes larger, the term "-tds" will become more negative. at some point, it is possible that -dts will be more negative than the dh is positive, and the reaction will become spontaneous. this is probably the correct answer, but you should look at all of the other possibilities and make sure of that.