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What is a common amphoteric substance?
Water is an amphoteric substance.
Is a bicarbonate ion an amphoteric substance?
amphoteric
Is ammonia an amphoteric substance?
No, in order for a substance to be considered amphoteric it must be able to act as an acid and a base. Sodium sulfite will only act as a base, and thus it is not amphoteric.
Can an amphoteric compound act like an acid and a base?
Am amphoteric substance can react as a base but also as an acid.
Is sulfuric acid amphoteric substance?
No. It is only an acid.
How Water is an amphoteric substance?
Yes, water can react as an acid or a base - amphoteric.
What is a substance which acts as both an acid and a base?
An example would be water which can gain a proton to form the hydroxonium ion (acting as a base) or donate a proton forming the hydroxide ion (acting as an acid). An acid is a proton donor; a base is a proton acceptor.
What acts like both an acid and a base?
A substance that has both acidic and basic properties is said to be an amphoteric substance.
Why beryllium hydroxide is basic?
Beryllium hydroxide - Be(OH)2 - is an amphoteric substance.
Is it possable for chemical to behave as an acid and a base?
Yes. A substance with both acidic and basic properties is called an amphoteric substance. Water, while generally regarded as neutral, is actually amphoteric. Sodium bicarbonate is also amphoteric. While it usually acts as a base, it can act as an acid under highly alkaline conditions.
When a substance can act as an acid or base it is said to be what?
Amphoteric substance For example, NaHCO3 Acidic part = H+ Basic part = CO32-
Is zinc an amphoteric substance?
zinc reacts with acids as in: Zn+H2SO4-ZnSO4+H2 zinc also reacts with bases as in: Zn+2NaOH - Na2ZnO2+H2 Therefore zinc should be amphoteric metal. But none of the sites states that zinc is amphoteric
