An important component of blood is the buffer combination of bicarbonate ion and carbonic acid. Consider blood

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An important component of blood is the buffer combination of bicarbonate ion and carbonic acid. Consider blood with a pH of 7.42.
a. What is the ratio of [H2CO3] to [HCO3]?
b. What does the pH become if 15% of the bicarbonate ions are converted to carbonic acid?
c. What does the pH become if 25% of the carbonic acid molecules are converted to bicarbonate ions?
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General Chemistry

ISBN: 978-1439043998

9th edition

Authors: Darrell Ebbing, Steven D. Gammon

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