Compounds According to the Experimental Results by MBL:

• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Carbonic acid; Aqueous solution of carbon dioxide; Science textbook
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.670.1466; http://ocean.kisti.re.kr/downfile/volume/chemical/JCGMDC/2010/v54n4/JCGMDC_2010_v54n4_479.pdf?origin%3Dpublication_detail

ABSTRACT. The purposes of this study are to investigate the description of scientifically debatable carbonic acid in the Korean high school textbooks, characterize the physical properties of ‘carbonic acid solutions ’ by using an MBL set-up and compare the properties with textual ones. Four different aqueous solutions of carbon dioxide have been prepared and analyzed: naturally aerated aqueous solution, dry ice-dissolving solution, CO2-bubbling solution and commercial carbonic acid water. Experimental findings showed that pH and conductivity of these 4 solutions ranged from 3.85 to 5.66 and from 0.21 µS/cm to 272.1 µS/cm, respectively. Out of these solutions, the dissociation constant(Ka1) of the bubbling solution at room temperature could be calculated to 5.7 × 10-7 which value is comparable to the textual 4.3 × 10-7 within experimental errors, which means that textual compound is not pure carbonic acid but the equilibrated mixture of carbonic acid and the aqueous solution of carbon dioxide. On the other hand, textual analysis showed that most of high school textbooks used carbonic acid as an example of weak acid and buffer solution of the blood but none of them distinguished the carbonic acid from the aqueous solution of carbon dioxide. Only