# Homework Help: Acid & Base titration curve

1. Feb 27, 2010

### Scharles

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1.)For the titration of strong acid and strong base, and at the beginning of the curve, how to explain the big amount of base added only increase a little of the pH value since it was not a buffer region.

2.)The line of point S or equivalence point is a straight line or steep/slope to left hand side ??

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2. Mar 5, 2010

### Umbra Lupis

The equivalence point occurs ideally when at an inflection point. That is when slope reaches a extremum (want $$\frac{d^2(pH)}{dV^2} = 0$$) - however I have found that rarely happens in real life - you want the point closest to where this is true.

I am still thinking about the first part.

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