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Ka for polycarboxybetaines is combined with that of the polycarboxylate to arrive at an estimate of the ion pairing strength of a zwitterion, 1/K1 = 103.1, where the zwitterion carboxylate is represented by ⊖ and pyridinium by ⊕.
