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Query:

Re: Citrate phosphate buffer preparation

Date: Tue Apr 14 01:56:26 2009
Posted By: Sebastien De Landtsheer, Undergraduate, Immunology, Laboratoire National de Santé
Area of science: Chemistry
ID: 1236080931.Ch
Message:

Hello, 

I might not have grasped all the subtilities, but it looks quite obvious 
to me : Per liter, add 0.1mol citric acid (19.212g) and 0.05mol sodium 
biphosphate (6.9g). Then raise the pH to 6.0 with 1M NaOH.
You may also calculate, in your final solution, the concentrations of the 
different ions, and then add them individually (Na citrate + citric acid 
+ phosphoric acid + monophosphate + diphosphate) but that's not how it is 
usually made in a lab, equiped with a pH-meter.

Hope that helps



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