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Boric acid is a weak acid, with pK a (the pH at which buffering is strongest because the free acid and borate ion are in equal concentrations) of 9.24 in pure water at 25 °C. But apparent p K a is substantially lower in swimming pool or ocean waters because of interactions with various other molecules in solution.
Borax is also easily converted to boric acid and other borates, which have many applications. Its reaction with hydrochloric acid to form boric acid is: Na 2 B 4 O 7 ·10H 2 O + 2 HCl → 4 H 3 BO 3 + 2 NaCl + 5 H 2 O. Borax is sufficiently stable to find use as a primary standard for acid-base titrimetry. [17]: p.316
Total boron is an important quantity when determining alkalinity due to borate's contribution to a solution's acid neutraling capacity. Total boron is a conservative element in seawater, and can thus be calculated by simply knowing the salinity.
Polymeric boron oxoanions are formed in aqueous solution of boric acid at pH 7–10 if the boron concentration is higher than about 0.025 mol/L. The best known of these is the tetraborate ion [B 4 O 7] 2−, found in the mineral borax: 4 [B(OH) 4] − + 2 H + ⇌ [B 4 O 5 (OH) 4] 2− + 7 H 2 O
Boric is a chemistry term that refers to substances containing boron, such as: boric acid or orthoboric acid, B(OH) 3; metaboric acid, an acid containing boron, HBO 2; tetraboric acid or pyroboric acid, an acid containing boron, H 2 B 4 O 7; boric oxide, specifically boron trioxide B 2 O 3; a boric ester, or organic borate; Boric may also refer to:
Borate concentration (giving buffering capacity) can vary from 10 mM to 100 mM. As BBS is used to emulate physiological conditions (as in animal or human body), the pH value is slightly alkaline, ranging from 8.0 to 9.0. NaCl gives the isotonic (mostly used 150 mM NaCl corresponds to physiological conditions: 0.9% NaCl) salt concentration.
54 g of Tris base (CAS# 77-86-1, free base) 27.5 g of boric acid (CAS# 10043-35-3) 20 ml of 0.5 M EDTA (CAS# 60-00-4) (pH 8.0) Adjust pH to 8.3 by HCl. [2] TBE can be diluted to 1X prior to use in electrophoresis, 0.5x is acceptable as well. Higher concentrations will result in poor results due to excessive heat generation.
It consists of a mixture of 0.04 M boric acid, 0.04 M phosphoric acid and 0.04 M acetic acid that has been titrated to the desired pH with 0.2 M sodium hydroxide. Britton and Robinson also proposed a second formulation that gave an essentially linear pH response to added alkali from pH 2.5 to pH 9.2 (and buffers to pH 12).