Organic Chemistry · Chapter 10: Nitrogen & Phosphorous Compounds

Question

Phosphoric acid is an excellent buffer because ____.

Answer

Phosphoric acid is an excellent buffer because it has three hydrogens with pKa values that span nearly the entire pH scale.
Phosphoric acid is an excellent buffer because it has three hydrogens with p K a values that span nearly the entire pH…
Note: The pKa for the loss of the first hydrogen is 2.15; for the second, 7.20; and for the third, 12.32.

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