PH a pH of 7.3. This is clearly wrong as an acid solution should have a pH of less than 7. Treating the system as a mixture of hydrochloric acid and the amphoteric substance water, a pH of 6.89 results. A weak acid or the conjugate acid of a weak base can be treated using the same formalism. First, an acid dissociation constant is defined as follows. Electrical charges are omitted from subsequent equations for the sake of generality and its value is assumed to have been determined by experiment. This being so, there are three unknown concentrations, [HA], [H] and
Alkali Act 1863 Alkali Act 1863 Under the British Alkali Act 1863, an alkali inspector and four subinspectors were appointed to curb discharge into the air of muriatic acid gas (gaseous hydrochloric acid) from Leblanc alkali works. In 1874, under the Alkali Act 1874, the Inspector became the Chief Inspector. The first Chief Inspector was Dr Robert Angus Smith, he was statutorily responsible for the standards set and maintained by the Inspectorate, and reported directly to the Permanent Secretary of his department. For the first sixty years of its existence, the Inspectorate was solely concerned with the heavy chemicals industry, but from the