Calculate the equilibrium concentration of all ionic aqueous species in a solution containing 1.30 M HCl and 4.0 M C6H5OH (phenol, Ka=1.6 x 10^-10). What is the pH of the solution?
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How about showing how much already know about the problem? And when you get as far as you can go, please explain what you don't understand about the next step.
I was just wondering whether HCl and C6H5OH on the reactant side together, or am i supposed to separate the two into two different reaction equations, and then do ICE from there? Because I'm not sure how to create a acid-base reaction with HCl and C6H5OH together on one side... I was thinking separating at first .. HCl => H+ + Cl-, but that seems wrong also
Separate them. There is no reaction between them. Use Ka from phenol to include (H^+) from HCl and calculate total H+.
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