Posted by Hannah on Saturday, April 7, 2012 at 9:16pm.
No. You go through the hydrolysis equation.
.........NH4^+ + H2O ==> H3O^+ + NH3
initial..0.144............0.......0
change....-x...............x......x
equil...0.144-x............x......x
Ka for NH4^+ = (Kw/Kb for NH3) = (NH3)(H3O^+)/(NH4^+)
Substitute for NH3 and H3O^+ in the above. Substitute 0.144-x for NH4 and solve for x = (H3O^+), then convert to pH.
so the values for both NH3 and H3O are 0?
No. They are x. And you're solving for x. And you convert x to pH.
For the Ka of NH4^+^ I did 1.0e-14/1.83-5 = 5.55e-10. What do I do with this value?
So for (NH3)(H3O) / NH4 it would be
x^2/0.144-x
Kb = 5.55E-10 so
5.55E-10 = x^2/0.144-x
oh ok I get it, thank you!!
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