I love Henderson-Hasselbach
Nov. 30th, 2005 01:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lurkittyJust suspend your rational mind for a little while and come with me into chemistry land.
You make up a solution of Triethylamine in water good ole H20. Triethyamine has a pH of around 10.4 or so. Purified water is about 6.5. Mix those two and you get......drum roll please....11.7. That's right. For reasons I'm not going into here, you get a nice pH of 11.7. You add water and the pH goes up.
Finish the solution by adding Acetic Acid to buffer it down to pH 10 and make Triethylamine Acetate.
BUffa, buffa, buffa
You make up a solution of Triethylamine in water good ole H20. Triethyamine has a pH of around 10.4 or so. Purified water is about 6.5. Mix those two and you get......drum roll please....11.7. That's right. For reasons I'm not going into here, you get a nice pH of 11.7. You add water and the pH goes up.
Finish the solution by adding Acetic Acid to buffer it down to pH 10 and make Triethylamine Acetate.
BUffa, buffa, buffa
