pH of bicitra

[coffeebythelake]

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What is it? Acidic right?

 

[pgg]

It's a buffer of citric acid and sodium citrate, pH is 4.3.

 

[deleted171991]

It's a buffer of citric acid and sodium citrate, pH is 4.3.

About 1,000 times less acidic than the stomach.

 

[dhb]

About 1,000 times less acidic than the stomach.

But a 1000 times more acidic than a neutral solution 😀

 

[WashMe]

Interesting point to bring up. To understand why you wouldn’t give a neutralizing solution of even a mild base, one must consider what would happen from a general chemistry standpoint. You basically make a lot of heat and generate water. It’s why you clean up acid or base spills with water dilution, not neutralization, to prevent exothermic reaction injuries

 

[pgg]

But a 1000 times more acidic than a neutral solution 😀

More to it than that, 30 ml of a buffer at 4.3 will raise the pH of an acid more than 30 ml of a non buffer like water at about 7.