Sunday, August 19, 2018

How do the strong acids dissociate?


In writing net ionic equations involving strong acids, one needs to know how strong acids dissociate. For example, the dissociation of HX2SOX4:


HX2SOX42HX++SOX4X2HXSOX4HX++HSOX4X



The reason I ask is because apparently the molecular equation


HX2SOX4+2KOH2HX2O+KX2SOX4


has the net-ionic form HX++OHXHX2O


It would be helpful if you could describe in general how I should write the dissociation of the strong acids in the net ionic equation.




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