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buffers are choose that can react with strong acids and bases to choose. the options for the first choose are: strong bases and weak acids, strong acids and strong bases, strong acids and weak bases, weak acids or weak bases
A buffer solution is a solution that can resist changes in pH when small amounts of a strong acid or a strong base are added. Buffer solutions are made from weak acids or weak bases and their salts. For example, a common buffer is a mixture of acetic acid (a weak acid) and sodium acetate (its salt). When a strong acid is added, the acetate ion (from the salt) reacts with the hydrogen ions from the strong acid. When a strong base is added, the acetic acid reacts with the hydroxide ions from the strong base. Strong acids and strong bases cannot form buffer solutions because they completely dissociate and do not have the equilibrium needed for buffering action. Strong bases and weak acids or strong acids and weak bases also do not form the proper buffer - system as required (a buffer needs a weak acid and its conjugate base or a weak base and its conjugate acid).
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