Advertisements
Advertisements
Question
Explain the following:
Carbonic acid gives an acid salt but hydrochloric acid does not.
Advertisements
Solution
Carbonic acid is a dibasic acid with two replaceable hydrogen ions; therefore it forms one acid salt or one normal salt.
\[\ce{H2CO^-3 + H2O -> \underset{Carbonate anion}{H3O+ + CO^2-_3}}\]
Hydrochloric acid is a monobasic acid with one replaceable hydrogen ion and so forms only one normal salt.
\[\ce{NaOH + HCl -> NaCl + H2O}\]
APPEARS IN
RELATED QUESTIONS
Give two examples of the following:
dibasic acid
What do you understand by the statement ‘acetic acid is a monobasic acid'?
Give a reason for the following.
Hydronium ions are always in the form H3O+.
Choose the odd one out & give a reason:
Choose the odd one out & give a reason:
Explain the following:
H3PO3 is not a tribasic acid
Explain the following :
H3PO3 is not a tribasic acid
Explain the following:
\[\ce{H3PO3}\] is not a tribasic acid.
Explain the following:
H3PO3 is not a tribasic acid.
Explain the following:
\[\ce{H3PO3}\] is not a tribasic acid.
