Wednesday, April 25, 2018

acid base - Why do diacidic and triacidic alkalis dissociate in one step?



My book states that dibasic and tribasic acids dissociate in water in two and three steps respectively but for diacidic and triacidic bases it states that they dissociate in one step. I do not know why.


For example:


HX2SOX4 dissociates in water in two steps as follows: HX2SOX4(aq)HSOX4X+HX+ HSOX4X(aq)SOX4X2+HX+


but


Cu(OH)X2 dissociates in water in one step as follows:


Cu(OH)X2(aq)CuX2++2OHX


Why is this so. Why does not Cu(OH)X2 dissociate in two steps to form CuOHX+ in the first step and CuX2+ in the second step?




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