Bio Voyager
The bio-neural circuitry of the U.S.S Voyager must by maintain in a pH of 3.5 to 4.5 in order to function.To?
do this, Chief Engineer Torres(using what little chemistry she remembers before she was thrown out of the Starfleet Academy)uses a buffer made up of a solution that is initially 0.12 M in lactate ion and 0.08 M in lactic acid(ka=1.38x10^-4). While supposedly present for a peace conference, a kazon spy attempts to sabotage the ship by injecting 0.05 moles of NaOH into the bio-neural packets(approx. 1.0l in volume). Will this dastardly attempt succeed in waylaying our intrepid crew?
Public Comments
- don't Bogart the bong dude
- Using what little of my first year college Chemistry I still possess, I think that the sabotage will be successful by a small margin [final pH nearer to 4.8]. Hopefully, I am wrong and/or the USS Voyager's bio-neural circuitry is more tolerant than specified. Then the perpetrator can be caught and drowned in any remaining NaOH solution.
