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Diprotic Titration Curves
« on: February 23, 2013, 01:11:52 AM »
How is the titration represented by this curve diprotic? http://imgur.com/dlRFrGN

I can see how the hump kind of says it, but wouldn't it have to be like a vertical line?

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Re: Diprotic Titration Curves
« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2013, 04:44:23 AM »
I can see how the hump kind of says it, but wouldn't it have to be like a vertical line?

No. Whether there is more than one well visible inflection point depends on the relative strengths of the protons.

Download my pH calculator (see the signature, there is a 30 days free trial) and play with titration curves - sometimes they do have two inflection points, sometimes they have only one, sometimes they have one and some kind of hump, just like the curve you posted.
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