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Question
What do you understand by the statement ‘acetic acid is a monobasic acid'?
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Solution
Acetic acid is a monobasic acid which on ionization in water produces one hydronium ion per molecule of the acid.
\[\ce{CH3COOH + H2O <=> H3O+ + CH3COO-}\]
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