Acetic acid and its conjugate base acetate can form an acid-base buffer.  The pKa of acetic acid is 4.75. How much 10.0 M  HNO3 must be added to 1.00 L of a buffer that is 0.0100 M  acetic acid and 0.100 M  sodium acetate to reduce the pH to 5.35 ?

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Acetic acid and its conjugate base acetate can form an acid-base buffer.  The pKa of acetic acid is 4.75.

How much 10.0  HNO3 must be added to 1.00 L of a buffer that is 0.0100  acetic acid and 0.100  sodium acetate to reduce the pH to 5.35 ?

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