When dissolved in water, what do acids produce?
1 Answer
May 2, 2017
Dissolution of a gas in water causes an increase in the concentration of the characteristic cation of the solvent, i.e.
Explanation:
We (well) know that water undergoes autoprotolysis......which we represent as:
And such protolysis may be quantitatively measured...
Taking
But
And so the moral, dissolution of an acid in water causes AN INCREASE in the concentration of the characteristic cation,