A patient with respiratory alkalosis has a blood plasma pH of 7.58. What is the $[H_3O^+]$ of the blood plasma?

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Answer 1 · 2016-11-29T06:05:19

$pH=-log_10[H_3O^+]$ . Here $[H_3O^+]$ $=$ $10^(-7.58)*mol*L^-1$

Here $[H_3O^+]$ $=$ $10^(-7.58)*mol*L^-1=2.6xx10^-8*mol*L^-1$ .

$[HO^-]$ , so I presume, is elevated with this condition. What is $[HO^-]$ here? What do you think it should be?

A patient with respiratory alkalosis has a blood plasma pH of 7.58. What is the [H_3O^+][H_3O^+] of the blood plasma?