I have never seen normality before, so I'm really having trouble understanding it. Here is the problem:
"If 1.0 mL of 10.0 N NaOH is added to a liter of the buffer prepared in (a), how much will the pH change?" The buffer from part a was a phosphate buffer of 0.058 M HPO42- and 0.042 M H2PO4-.
I got the problem right after the answer told me that 1.0 mL of 10.0 N NaOH was 0.010 mol, but I have no idea how they got this. I looked up normality online and know the basic definition(gram equivalents/liters solution), and that it is specific for particular reactions. But I don't even know how to set up a basic equation to find the molarity here. Am I supposed to first solve for gram equivalents? Because I thought that the gram equivalent should be 40 g, the molecular weight of NaOH, because you only would get one equivalent of OH- when it dissociates...?
Basically I'm totally lost.