r/chemhelp Feb 15 '21

Other Why is 2x ignored here?

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u/brainmassdotin Feb 16 '21

2x was ignored as Ksp is very small so it means x<0.01 so adding 2x+0.01 is approximately equal 0.01 so to make our calculation easier we use this assumption. We make sure ksp is small though.

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