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Buffer solution

Aqueous solution of a weak acid and its conjugate base

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 28, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

A buffer solution is a solution where the pH does not change significantly on dilution or if a small amount of strong acid or base is added to it at constant temperature. Buffer capacity is used to measure the resistance to pH change of a buffer solution.

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“Buffer solution” enters the record as aqueous solution of a weak acid and its conjugate base. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Buffer, solution and Aqueous can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 47-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Buffer, solution and Aqueous.
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This entry incorporates text from “Buffer solution” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.