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Offline Berettagtz

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Mercury Sulfide dissociation
« on: September 20, 2008, 01:59:02 PM »
mercury sulfide disssociates as follows:

HgS to  Hg2++S2-    Ksp=5x10-54

Then, because there are competing equlibria involved, it follows:

S2-+H2O to HS-+OH-     Kb1=0.8
and
HS-+H2O to H2O + OH-   Kb2=1.1x10-7

Knowing the pH I need to find the following:  [H], [OH], [Hg], , [HS], [H2S]

This problem is not hard at all, I just can't seem to get around the algebra to get the answers.  Does anyone (with better algebra than me) know how to calculate the above mentioned concentrations ?

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