To increase the acidity of soil, you can add peat, which contains a complex acid mixture known as humic acid, a diprotic acid (two acidic protons). The complexity of the humic acid makes it difficult to determine how acidic you are making the soil. You decide to use a titration to get a better measure. If titration of a 55 mL extraction from the peat requires 5.09 mL of 1.00 mM sodium hydroxide, what is the concentration (in mM) of humic acid in the peat?
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To increase the acidity of soil, you can add peat, which contains a complex acid mixture known as humic acid, a diprotic acid (two acidic protons). The complexity of the humic acid makes it difficult to determine how acidic you are making the soil. You decide to use a titration to get a better measure.
If titration of a 55 mL extraction from the peat requires 5.09 mL of 1.00 mM sodium hydroxide, what is the concentration (in mM) of humic acid in the peat?
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