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Why doesn't hydroxide associate with water analogously to proton forming hydronium?
I'm a novice at chemistry. I've heard that an acid needs water to show its acidic properties, that's why nitric acid needs to be associated with water to show its acidic properties:
$$\ce{HNO3 + H2O &...
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Aspirin Hydrolysis at pH 2
Conducting an experiment, I found that very little salicylic acid was evolved performing hydrolysis at $\mathrm{pH \ 2}$ and at $\pu{45 ^\circ C}$. In fact, far more salicylic acid was evolved at $\...
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Effect of mixing acids on solubility
Please help me clarify the title if you come up with a better way to put it (you certainly will).
My question is the following:
If you make a mix of equal parts of various acids (Bicarbonate, ...
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Hydrogen and Hydrogen ion
Is it correct that a hydrogen atom only has 1 electron and 1 proton since the atomic mass is 1?
Also, is the hydrogen ion composed of a single proton and no electrons?
In an ionization process we know ...
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Why do nonmetal oxides react with water to form acidic compounds? [closed]
I am confused about the molecular basis by which nonmetal oxides react with water to form acidic compounds. For example, I understand that sulfur trioxide reacts with water to form sulfuric acid as ...
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Does acid and base react directly, or do they react first with water?
If an acid $\ce{AH}$ reacts with a base $\ce{B}$ in aqueous solution, in textbook they write
$$\ce{AH + B -> A- + BH+}\label{rxn:1}\tag{1}$$
But first I add acid to water and then base, so why ...
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How does the HCl-KCl Buffer work?
I have just been studying the $\ce{HCl}$-$\ce{KCl}$ 'buffer', but there are still quite a few things I am uncertain about. I would appreciate any help in clearing up some questions I have.
What I ...
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Reaction between NaOH and CO2
So I wanted to know what the reaction between sodium hydroxide and carbon dioxide can be, and upon research I got 2 answers. The first one is
$$\ce{CO2 + NaOH(aq) -> NaHCO3(aq)}$$
and the second ...
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