What Happens When You Mix a pH 8 Base with a pH 14 Base?

[Serene_Chaos]

Say i were to mix a basewith a pH of say 8, with a pH 14. what would my final pH be? 11?

 

[quetzalcoatl9]

Say i were to mix a basewith a pH of say 8, with a pH 14. what would my final pH be? 11?

it depends upon the concentrations of each, and the pK of the bases - but it is safe to say that your pH will be somewhere between 8-14.

the exact pH will follow the Henderson-Hasselbach eq.

 

[Gokul43201]

...and of course, the volume of each base matters.

 

[DaveC426913]

It would *have* to follow a non-linear mixing formula, since the pH number is logarythmic. pH9 is 10x more alkaline than pH8; pH10 is 10x more alkaline than pH9.

 

[GCT]

a base with a pH of 8 is very weak, do you think that the weak base will hydrolyze more or less when there already exists a significant concentration of hydroxide (consider this problem in terms of rates). I'll explain the specifics later.

 

[Borek]

a base with a pH of 8 is very weak

Not necessarilly. It can be strong, but diluted.

 

[GCT]

Say i were to mix a basewith a pH of say 8, with a pH 14. what would my final pH be? 11?

in the relative sense, as mentioned in the original post, yes it would be very weak...compared to one which would register a pH of 14.