Identifying Amphoteric Compounds

[Clara Cho 2K]

How do you identify an amphoteric compound?

[Callum Guo 1H]

This may help. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yjulD5dMjn8

[Robin Cadd 1D]

If the compound can act as both an acid and a base, the compound is amphoteric. The most common example is H2O. It can gain a proton to become a hydronium ion (H3O+) or lose a proton to become a hydroxide ion (OH-).

[DMuth_1J]

I'm not too sure if we will need to know much more besides water in terms of the amphoteric compounds

[Jessica Li 4F]

Yeah, Lavelle hasn't really gone over amphoteric compounds in lecture yet, so I think it would be best to just know that H2O is the standard amphoteric compound because it has the same concentration of H+ and OH- ions.

[205154661_Dis2J]

The one amphoteric compound we have gone over in lecture is H2O since it can act as a base and acid. I think it is sufficient enough to know that H2O is the main amphoteric compound.