Water

Water Percentage in Various Body Parts Teeth 10% Lungs 80% Bones 13% Brain 80.5% Cartilage 55% Bile 86% Red blood cells 68.7% Plasma Liver Blood Muscle Lymph Spleen Saliva 90% 71.5% 90.7% 75% 94% 75.5% 95.5%

The pH Scale A convenient means of writing small concentrations: pH = -log10 [H+] Srensen (Denmark) If [H+] = 1 x 10 -7 M Then pH = 7

Dissociation of Weak Electrolytes

Consider a weak acid, HA The acid dissociation constant is given by: HA H+ + A Ka = [ H + ] [ A - ]
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[HA]

The Henderson-Hasselbalch Equation

For any acid HA, the relationship between the pKa, the concentrations existing at equilibrium and the solution pH is given by:

pH = pKa + log10

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[HA]