Buffer solutions:

A. work best when the pH of the buffer is two pH units above its pKa.
B. have a greater buffering capacity at lower concentrations.
C. buffer best when almost entirely in the conjugate base form.
D. have a characteristic Ka, which can be expressed as [HA]/[A-][ H3O+].
E. do not change very much when H3O+ and OH- are added.


E

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