I know that sulfuric acid is considered a strong acid, and the dissociation of its first HX+ ion is complete and of its second HX+ ion is partial.
Phosphoric acid is weak and all three of its HX+ ions dissociate partially.
I just wanted to clarify: are dibasic and tribasic acids considered strong if their first dissociation is complete (and subsequent ones will naturally be partial)?
Answer
I mean whenever you have a polyprotic acid/base and they say that if it is strong or weak you can only assume the first dissociation is strong or weak.
Say like you have HX2SOX4 and we all know that it is a strong acid. This only means that the first dissociation is strong.
HX2SOX4⟶HSOX4X−+HX3OX+
So in this case above only the first dissociation is strong. And then you cannot and do not know if HSOX4 is strong as well.
So overall in any case we cannot assume and the data must be provided. Good Question.
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