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What Is buffer solution? Give an example for an acidic buffer and a basic buffer.

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1. Buffer is a solution which consists of a mixture of weak acid and its conjugate base (or) a weak base and its conjugate acid. 

2. This buffer solution resists drastic changes in its pH upon addition of a small quantities of acids (or) bases and this ability is called buffer action. 

3. Acidic buffer solution, Solution containing acetic acid and sodium acetate. Basic buffer solution, Solution containing NH4O and NH4Cl.

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