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).

the electrical  conductivity  of asolution  of an electrolyte is measured by determining the resistance of thesolution  between two flat or cylindrical electrodes separated by a fixed distance.