I lost 21 pounds in my first 8 weeks on The Colorado Diet and was surprised at how easy it was to lose. I never felt deprived, actually ate more food than I had in the pastâ¦ and week after week, the pounds just came off. Praise for the State of Slim.
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For an aqueous solution composed of both a weak acid or base and its conjugate, see Buffer solution. For uses not related to acid-base chemistry, see Buffer. A buffering agent is a weak acid or base used to maintain the acidity (pH) of a solution near a chosen value after the addition of another acid or base. That is, the function of a buffering agent is to prevent a rapid change in pH when acids or bases are added to the solution.