YEs sounds right concentration of CH3OH is 0.25M.

Unless you know K or pKa and it is forming the CH3O- ion? doubt it though, strange question huh?

What do you by K, Ka, and pKa of CH₃OH? Seems like I will be learning this later this year. But can you please simply tell me how CH₃OH dissociates without using any super-advanced science terms?:aak:

But you said there is a such thing as a CH₃O^- ion. It's probably not on my humongous ion chart I have here. So that means that CH₃OH will dissociate into CH₃O^- and H⁺ ions in solution. Voila!


Thanks for all of your help.

-kclive

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pKa for methanol is somewhat close to water and is exactly 15.2.. so there will be ions in the solution through dissociation..  

Can you give reference? I remembered it as about 17, but I could be wrong and I can't locate it in my books at the moment (although I am almost sure it is less then 10 feets from me )

If they haven't yet learned about K_a etc then I don't think they'd be asked to find how methaol and water dissociate to form the three ions.

I don't suppose it's an easy calculation, although I might be wrong. My initial reserverations come from the fact that the H⁺ ion would be shared and change the K_a for both of them...Am I wrong in this?