The last time I took chemistry was a couple of quarters ago, so I am a bit lost with identifying acids and bases, and whether they are strong or weak. I am most worried with this test that I will be unable to identify how a compound might dissociate in water. Does anyone have any tips on how to do this? I can do all the calculations for the problems, but I just need help with starting them!
Thanks in advance!
Strong vs. weak acids and bases?
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Re: Strong vs. weak acids and bases?
Here's a list of the strong acids and bases! You can assume everything else is weak. Hope this helps!
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Re: Strong vs. weak acids and bases?
For me, I memorized the list of strong acids (7 or so please double check) and strong bases ( group 1 and group 2 hydroxides and oxides). The rest are usually weak acids and bases.
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Re: Strong vs. weak acids and bases?
Thanks! This helps a lot. Follow up question...how do you determine how exactly the weak compounds will dissociate? ex. How would you know that NH2NH2 becomes NH2NH3+?
Thanks again!!!
Thanks again!!!
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Re: Strong vs. weak acids and bases?
If the compound has an H+ at its beginning or ends with a -COOH, then you can assume it is an acid. For bases, the compounds will usually contain a hydroxide ion, oxide ion, OR exist as some kind of derivative of ammonia (NH3).
Strong acids include HCl, HI, HBr, HClO4-, HNO3, and H2SO4. You can essentially regard all the other acids as being weak.
Strong bases include metal hydroxides (OH-) and oxides (O2-). All others can be categorized as weak bases.
Strong acids include HCl, HI, HBr, HClO4-, HNO3, and H2SO4. You can essentially regard all the other acids as being weak.
Strong bases include metal hydroxides (OH-) and oxides (O2-). All others can be categorized as weak bases.
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Re: Strong vs. weak acids and bases?
AnnaYan_1l wrote:Thanks! This helps a lot. Follow up question...how do you determine how exactly the weak compounds will dissociate? ex. How would you know that NH2NH2 becomes NH2NH3+?
Thanks again!!!
Hi! All derivatives of ammonia are weak bases so NH2NH2 is a weak base. Since it's a base, albeit weak, we would expect for a small fraction of the molecules to get protonated to NH2NH3 in an aqueous solution.
Hope this helps!
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