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Hello, I'm Sam Smith.

This lesson covers Asses and Bases, and it covers a pretty wide range of topics within asses and bases.

So I'm going to cover the basic definitions of acids and bases, talk about calculating pH,

then I'll cover titrations, then buffers. And lastly, I'm going to talk about the blood buffer

system that keeps your body and homeostasis,

keeps your blood pH at about the same level.

And acids and bases will be seen on two out of the four MCAT sections.

They'll be seen on the chemical and physical foundations of biological systems, as well as on

the biological and biochemical foundations of living systems.

And I just want to know that some of this information is very, very basic.

So this will bring you all the way back to freshman introchem.

But with that said, it's still very important.

Make sure you know all these definitions, all these ideas, you know, like the back of your hand. Make sure you really have all this stuff down. Yeah. So very basic,

but this will be a good review of all these basic topics. So the first thing I want to start with is some of the basic definitions of acids and basics.

So the first definition was put out by aranus, or aranius, and he defined an acid as any species that increased the concentration of

hydrogen ions in aqueous solution and on the flip side of that is the iranus base which is any

species that increases the concentration of hydroxide which is is OH minus in aqueous solution.

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