The Senate approved the legislation earlier Wednesday in a 78-20 vote, and Obama signed it into law that evening. All 20 ânoâ votes in the Senate came from Republicans, though Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), both running for president, missed the vote. Without action by Congress, the federal government would have shut down on Thursday, the beginning of a new fiscal year.
A buffer is made by mixing a large volume of a weak acid or weak base together with its conjugate. A weak acid and its conjugate base can remain in solution without neutralizing each other.
Buffer. Definition. noun, plural: buffers. (1) (chemistry) A buffer solution: a solution containing either a weak acid and a conjugate base or a weak base and a conjugate acid, used to stabilize the pH of a liquid upon dilution.n ecology, a buffer species is a plant or an animal that becomes an alternate prey to a predator. This happens when the predator's preferable, usual prey species is scarce or absent. A buffer may also refer to a vegetated area near a stream that plays a conservatory role in the environment.