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AP Chemistry
8.8 Properties of Buffers
8.4 Acid-Base Reactions and Buffers
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A single square box represents a buffer solution sample. A legend at the top maps: open circle = \(\text{HA}\), filled black circle = \(\text{A}^-\). Inside the square container, there are exactly 5 open circles and exactly 5 filled black circles evenly distributed without overlap. Water molecules and spectator ions are omitted. No other particles, labels, text, or annotations appear.
Particulate representation of the initial \(\text{HA}/\text{A}^-\) buffer solution.
A buffer solution is prepared by mixing equimolar amounts of a weak acid, \(\text{HA}\), and its conjugate base, \(\text{A}^-\). The particulate diagram below represents a sample of this initial buffer solution containing exactly \(5\) molecules of \(\text{HA}\) and \(5\) ions of \(\text{A}^-\). A student adds a solution containing exactly \(2\) units of \(\text{H}_3\text{O}^+\) to this sample.

Which of the following particulate diagrams best represents the resulting mixture after the acid-base reaction goes to completion?

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