I'm doing a lab report and if someone could please help me know what buffer is that would be great. It says on my paper that buffer is a nonliving chemical solution, but does that make it biological or non biological?
2007-10-08 17:57:43 · 4 answers · asked by asdasdasdasdasdasdasdasdadasdads 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
I dont think so.
same question as "if you spray lysol on something will it live?".
2007-10-08 18:01:29 · answer #1 · answered by Hey,geturjiblitzoffmyfacedude 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Buffer is a solution containing an acid and a salt having one common ion it has nothing to do with biological material biological material is one which is created only by living things like certain proteins and other biological molecules.
2007-10-09 04:01:30 · answer #2 · answered by ata_007 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I consider buffers to be chemicals or biochemicals, but not biologicals (biological implies living).
A buffer is by definition: A solution containing either a weak acid and its salt or a weak base and its salt, which is resistant to changes in pH.
2007-10-09 01:24:46 · answer #3 · answered by BP 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What you probably mean by biological is organic, as in made from living things.
There are buffers in nonliving systems (for example, carbondioxide, when dissolved in water forms carbonic acid, which act as a weak buffer) and there are buffers in living systems as well (for example, your blood is buffered)
2007-10-09 01:53:22 · answer #4 · answered by Ms. K. 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋