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What best describes how weak acids or weak bases dissolve in water?
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Weak acids and weak bases partially ionize when dissolved in water unlike strong acids and strong bases that completely ionize when dissolved. Ethanoic acid is a weak acid. At any one time, only about 1% of the ethanoic acid molecules have converted into ions. The rest remain as simple ethanoic acid molecules.
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∙ 9y agoElectrolytes dissolve in water when the individual components break down into ions. A thermodynamic process takes place when an electrolyte is placed in a solution like water.
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Acids or bases dissolve in water to produce H?
Acids.
When dissolved in water acids release and bases release?
acids release hydrogen ions bases release hydroxide ions
Do acids ionize or dissolve in water Can you explain please?
Acids ionize can dissolve in water it will lower the pH levels. This is does in many things to keep pH levels lower.
What happens in a solution where an acid or base is dissolve?
Acids form hydrogen ions (H+) that combine with water to form the hydronium ion (H3O+) and bases form hydroxide ions (OH-). To be exact: a hydrogen ion is an atom of hydrogen that has lost its electron. An acid is any substance that forms hydrogen ions in water. the hydroxide ion is polyatomic, made of oxygenand hydrogen. A base is any substance that forms hydroxide ions in water. The component ions of strong acids and bases completely dissociate.
What ions are produced by acids in water and bases in water Give two properties each of acids and bases?
Hydronium (H3O+) for acids and hydroxide (OH-) for bases. Acids: pH less than seven, have a sour taste Bases: pH > 7, slippery, bitter taste
Do acids dissolve in bases or do bases dissolve in acids?
They don't dissolve (or more properly, dissociate) completely in water, only partially. Acids or bases that dissociate completely are called strong acids or bases.
Acids or bases dissolve in water to produce H?
Acids.
What is a group of compounds that release ions when dissolved in water called?
compounds that release ions when they dissolve in water ar called acids.
Will a compound dissolve in water?
For example, ionic compounds: inorganic acids, salts, bases; many organic compounds, etc.
What kind of compounds can water dissolve?
For example, ionic compounds: inorganic acids, salts, bases; many organic compounds, etc.
What acids can do not dissolve in water?
Acids release hydrogen+ ions (H+) when dissolved in water
What else does acids react to form bases besides water?
Acids reacts with bases to form a salt and water.
When dissolved in water acids release and bases release?
acids release hydrogen ions bases release hydroxide ions
Do acids ionize or dissolve in water Can you explain please?
Acids ionize can dissolve in water it will lower the pH levels. This is does in many things to keep pH levels lower.
Why many drugs are weak acids and weak bases?
This is necessary because drugs need to be able to pass through cell membranes ( that's exclude strong acids and bases) and dissolve in the stomach and blood ( that's favor acids and bases). If a compound is too basic or acidic, it won't be able to cross the cell membranes and leave the digestive tract; if it's not acidic or basic at all, it won't dissolve well in the blood so it won't be carried efficiently throughout the body. If you want to get a little more into the chemistry of it, acids and bases gain and lose protons, which gives them ionic charges. Charged particles dissolve well in water, so acids and bases dissolve well. Charged particles can't pass throu...gh layers of uncharged molecules like those that make up the cell membrane, though. Weak acids and bases have the advantage that they're sometimes in their ionized state and sometimes in their unionized state, so they can dissolve, get through the cell membrane and then re-dissolve in the blood.
Compare and contrast the preparation of a salt from an alkali and a base?
Bases are substances that react with acids and neutralize them. They are usually metal oxides, metal hydroxides, metal carbonates or metal hydrogen carbonates. Many bases are insoluble - they do not dissolve in water.If a base does dissolve in water, we call it an alkali.
Why all acids are bases but all bases are not acids?
In any means, any acid which does exist is not similar to a base as they are categorized on entirely different behaviour. However, if the word 'alkali' is replaced to the word 'acid' in this question, an alkali is a base which can dissolve well in water, every base is not well soluble in water though.
