chapter 13: Acids and Bases Flashcards
what is an acid
- have a sour taste and ability to dissolve metals
what is a base
- bitter taste and feel slippery to the touch
what is the Arrhenius theory
- acids increase the concentration of H+ ions in water
- bases increase the concentration of OH- ions in water
what is a neutralization reaction and what does it produce
solution of an acid and a solution of a base are mixed
- products of the reaction have none of the characteristic properties of the acidic or basic solution
- produces water and a salt
what is a salt
- any ionic compound whose cation comes from a base and anion comes from acid
what is the bronsted lowry theory
HA + B —> A + HB
- acids are proton donors (have a removable acidic proton H+)
- bases are proton acceptors ( lone pair of nonbonding electrons)
what is an amphoteric substance
a substance that can act as either an acid or base
HCL + H20 –> CL = H3O+
NH3 + H2O –> NH4+ + OH- aq)
* water is acting like a base and an acid*
what is a conjugate acid-base pair
acid and a base that differ only in the presence or absence of a proton
- conjugate base: formed by removing a proton from an acid
- conjugate acid: formed by adding a proton to a base
NH3 + H2O = NH4+ OH-
what are the 7 strong acids
- sulfuric acid H2SO4
- Hydrochloric HCL
- Hydrobromic HBr
- Perchloric HCLO4
- Chloric HCLO3
- Hydroiodic HI
- Nitric HNO3
what arrow do strong acids and bases use/ strong electrolytes /
what arrow do weak acids and bases/ weak electrolytes use
- one way arrow not equilibrium bc they dissociate completely
- weak acids and bases use equilibrium arrows bc they don’t dissociate completely
what is a polyprotic acid and monoprotic acid
- monoprotic: 1 ionizable hydrogen
- polyprotic: >1 ionizable hydrogen
- polyprotic is strong and amphoteric conjugate base is weak
what group is in organic acids
- carboxyl group and these acids are weak bc H atoms are not ionizable
what is Ka used for and what is Ka
Ka is the acid dissociation constant
- used to express the extent to which weak acid ionizes
what does a greater Ka mean
stronger the acid
how does polarity affect acid strength
- polarity depends on the strength of the H-Y bond
- stability of the H-Y conjug. base
- more polar means more acidic
how does bond strength affect acid strength
- very strong bonds are less easily dissociated when weaker ones
- strong bonds = strong acid strength
- weak bonds =weak acid strength
what happens to the base when there is a stronger acid
the more stable it is = the less strong
* stronger the acid, the weaker its conjugate base*
- how does acidity increase in the periodic table
- acidity increases from left to right
- top to bottom down a group
what is an oxyacid
OH groups and possible atoms are bound to a central atom