Bar Keepers Friend is a household cleaner containing oxalic acid, a diprotic acid where pKa1 = 1.27 and pKa2 = 4.27. If the molarity of oxalic acid in one bottle of Bar Keepers Friend is 0.458 M, explain how you would determine the fractional composition of the charge state [H2A] at pH = 3.98? Write out exactly how you would solve the problem (including plugging in the appropriate numerical values to solve the problem without actually calculating the final answer).

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  1. Bar Keepers Friend is a household cleaner containing oxalic acid, a diprotic acid where pKa1 = 1.27 and pKa2 = 4.27. If the molarity of oxalic acid in one bottle of Bar Keepers Friend is 0.458 M, explain how you would determine the fractional composition of the charge state [H2A] at pH = 3.98? Write out exactly how you would solve the problem (including plugging in the appropriate numerical values to solve the problem without actually calculating the final answer).
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