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Given information

Here the concentration of and is given as:

  ,   ,   and    

 

 

 

 

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

The scale introduced by Sorensen is mainly used to calculate the concentration of hydronium ions in a solution. It can be calculated by the expression:

 

 

For an acidic solution,  , hence  

For a basic solution, , hence  

 

The expresses the concentration of hydroxide ions in a solution. It can be given as:

   

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