Tuesday, August 9, 2011

ACIDS AND BASES


•The strength of an acid depends on the degree of ionisation the acid in water.
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•A WEAK ACID is only partially ionised in water.

An example is ethanoic acid.
•every 100 CH3COOH molecules, only one of them ionises in water to form….

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•CH3COOH ----------> H+ + CH3COO-