bicarbonate/carbonic acid buffer is present in Coca-Cola, human blood, and chickens. However, chickens also combine the carbonate in their blood with calcium ions to create calcium carbonate for their eggshells. Since chickens do not sweat, they pant in hot weather. Panting helps to reduce the acidity of the blood by blowing out carbon dioxide. What effect would this have on the pH of their blood and the strength of eggshells they produce

Challenge question: this question is worth 6 points. as you saw in problem 9 we can have species bound to a central metal ion. these species are called ligands. in the past we have assumed all the d orbitals in some species are degenerate; however, they often are not. sometimes the ligands bound to a central metal cation can split the d orbitals. that is, some of the d orbitals will be at a lower energy state than others. ligands that have the ability to cause this splitting are called strong field ligands, cnâ’ is an example of these. if this splitting in the d orbitals is great enough electrons will fill low lying orbitals, pairing with other electrons in a given orbital, before filling higher energy orbitals. in question 7 we had fe2+, furthermore we found that there were a certain number (non-zero) of unpaired electrons. consider now fe(cn)6 4â’: here we also have fe2+, but in this case all the electrons are paired, yielding a diamagnetic species. how can you explain this?