Ionic Equilibrium
Chemical equilibrium and ionic equilibrium are two major concepts in chemistry. Ionic equilibrium deals with the equilibrium involved in an ionization process while chemical equilibrium deals with the equilibrium during a chemical change. Ionic equilibrium is established between the ions and unionized species in a system. Understanding the concept of ionic equilibrium is very important to answer the questions related to certain chemical reactions in chemistry.
Arrhenius Acid
Arrhenius acid act as a good electrolyte as it dissociates to its respective ions in the aqueous solutions. Keeping it similar to the general acid properties, Arrhenius acid also neutralizes bases and turns litmus paper into red.
Bronsted Lowry Base In Inorganic Chemistry
Bronsted-Lowry base in inorganic chemistry is any chemical substance that can accept a proton from the other chemical substance it is reacting with.
What is Bronsted acidity? Draw a picture to explain it.How is it measured?
Bronsted acidity of any molecule is defined as the tendency of any acid to release H+ ions in the solution.
More is the tendency of an acid to release H+ ions in the solution, more is the Bronsted acidity of the acid.
For example, HCl and CH3COOH
Since HCl is a strong acid.
Hence it dissociates completely in the solution producing H+ ions as
HCl ------> H+ + Cl- ( complete dissociation)
But since CH3COOH is a weak acid. Hence it dissociate partially as
CH3COOH -------> CH3COO- + H+ ( partial dissociation)
Hence for the same concentration of HCl and CH3COOH, HCl has more tendency to release H+ ions in the solution compared to CH3COOH.
Hence the Bronsted acidity of HCl is more than that of CH3COOH.
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