In writing net ionic equations involving strong acids, one needs to know how strong acids dissociate. For example, the dissociation of $\ce{H2SO4}$:
\begin{align}\ce{ H2SO4 &-> 2H+ + SO4^{2-}\\ H_SO4 &-> H+ + HSO4^{-}\\ }\end{align}
The reason I ask is because apparently the molecular equation
$$\ce{H2SO4 + 2KOH -> 2H2O + K2SO4}$$
has the net-ionic form $$\ce{H+ + OH- -> H2O}$$
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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