Solutions and Buffers Questions
Solutions and Buffers Questions
Solutions and Buffers Questions
Molarity
1. Determine the molarity for each of the following solutions:
(a)0.444 mol of CoCl2 in 0.654 L of solution
(b)98 g of phosphoric acid, H3PO4, in 1 L of solution
(c)0.2074 g of calcium hydroxide, Ca(OH)2, in 40 mL of solution
2. Calculate the number of moles and the mass of the solute in 2.00 L of 18.5 M H2SO4.
3. If 0.1718 L of a 0.3556 M C3H7OH solution is diluted to a concentration of 0.1222 M,
what is the volume of the resulting solution?
Molality
4. Calculate the molality of 13.5 g KF dissolved in 250 g water.
5. How many grams of MgCl2 is required to prepare 3000 g of 0.8 molal solution?
6. Calculate the molality when 75 g MgCl2 is dissolved in 500 g of solvent.
Normality
7. Find the normality of solution containing 5.3 g/L of Na2CO3.
8. Calculate the normality of 250 mL of HCl containing 18.25g of HCl.
9. 12.25 g of H3PO4 was dissolved in water and the volume made up to 100 mL calculate
the normality of the solution?
Percentage
10. How would you prepare 500 ml of a 10% NaCl solution?
Parts per Million
11. If there are 0.551 mg of As in 348 g of solution, what is the As concentration in ppm?
12. The concentration of Cl- ion in a sample of H2O is 15 ppm. What mass of Cl - ion is
present in 240 mL of H2O, which has a density of 1 g/mL?
Dilution
13. If you have DNA with a concentration of 2 µg/µL, how much DNA (in µL) must be
added to make a 20 µL solution with a DNA concentration of 1 µg/µL?
Preparation of Buffers
pH
14. Calculate the pH of 2.5 × 10-6 M of HCl. Ans: 5.6
15. Calculate the pH of 0.001 M NaOH solution.
16. Find [H+] and [OH-] concentration in a solution of pH 3.494.
Buffer
17. How much sodium formate (HCOONa, 68.0069 g/mol) do you need to add to 400.
mL of 1.00 M formic acid for a pH 3.500 buffer. Ka = 1.77 x 10¯4
18. You need to produce a buffer solution that has a pH of 5.270. You already have a
solution that contains 10.0 mM of acetic acid. How many millimoles of sodium
acetate will you need to add to this solution? The pKa of acetic acid is 4.752.
19. A mixture of acetic acid (0.2 M) and sodium acetate (0.3 M) sodium acetate is given.
Calculate the pH of the medium if the pKa of acetic acid is 4.76.