Choose the best answer below. If an equal number of moles of lactic acid, HC3H5O3, and potassium hydroxide, KOH, are added to water, is the resulting solution acidic, basic, or neutral? The Ka of lactic acid is 1.4 x10-5.

Solution is basic.

Explanation:

When you add the same moles to a weak acid and strong base, you produce a neutralization reaction and a salt. For this case:

CH₃CHOHCOOH  +  KOH →  KCH₃CHOHCOO  +  H₂O

If we work in a titration, this is the equivalence point where:

moles of base = moles of acid

For this reaction we are only having lactates ions on solution. All the moles from the lactic acid and the hydroxide will be neutralized to make water. As both numbers are the same, the number is the moles of the formed lactate.

If we think the equilibrium equation for lactate, we have:

CH₃CHOHCOO⁻  +  H₂O  ⇄  CH₃CHOHCOOH  +  OH⁻

In conclussion, the solution is basic, because we give OH⁻ to medium.

Notice, that in a titratrion of a weak acid and a strong base, the pH at the equivalence point is always basic.

it is to be noted that an alpha particle is an helium nucleus. so it contains 2 protons 2 neutrons and has a mass number of 4. when alpha decay particles are ejected from the nucleus it gets transformed into an atom which has atomic number less than 2 and a mass number less than 4.

an equation that could represent alpha decay is radium 226 decay of alpha particle forms radon 222.

→

m=9

step-by-step explanation: