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Offline brasarehot

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pH of pure ethanol?
« on: January 19, 2012, 11:17:49 AM »
I looked up that it was 7.33. How do you calculate this? Please do all the math step by step. I found pKa = 15.9 if that helps.
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Re: pH of pure ethanol?
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2012, 11:20:56 AM »
By the very definition of pH there can be no such thing as the pH of pure ethanol.
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