Thread: magnesium reacting in monoprotic strong acid

Depending on the values of x and y there can be or can be not noticeable change in pH. However, you will not get fast change of pH as in titration, as you will not get pH above 7. You won't get speed estimate, as it depends on many factors - the most important ones being metal surface and the way solution is mixed. I think it will be up to several minutes if you put a thin Mg ribbon in 1M HCl. -- buffer calculator , concentration...

If I have x moles of magnesium and y moles of a monoprotic strong acid (I'm talking about something like 0.03 moles or less of each reactant with the magnesium being the limiting reactant) the there's gonna be a noticable pH change right? Because I remember my teacher showing us the titration curve of a strong acid titrated with a strong base, there was that S-shape (or Z-shape) , where the first few drops of strong base didn't...