chapter 20 Flashcards

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What is a Brønsted Lowry acid?

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a species that can donate a proton

hydrogen chloride (HCl) is a Brønsted acid as it can lose a proton to form a hydrogen (H+) and chloride (Cl-) ion

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What is a Brønsted Lowry base?

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a species that can accept a proton

A hydroxide (OH-) ion is a Brønsted base as it can accept a proton to form water

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What is a conjugate acid-base pair?

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A conjugate acid-base pair is two species that are different from each other by an H+ ion.

CH3COOH (aq) + H2O (l) ⇌ CH3COO- (aq) + H3O+ (aq)

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What does it mean for an acid to be classified as mono basic/dibasic or tribasic?

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It means the number of bases that they can donate protons to in a reaction (this depends on how many H+ per molecule that they can give up in a reaction)

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Example of mono basic acid + what this means

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HCL, It contains one ionisable hydrogen atom in each molecule.

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Example of dibasic acid + what this means

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H2SO4, It contains two ionisable hydrogen atoms per molecule. Ionisation occurs in two steps.

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Example of tribasic acid + what this means

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H3PO4, It contains 3 ionisable hydrogen atoms per molecule. Ionisation occurs in 3 steps.

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Acid + metal =

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acid + metal → salt + hydrogen

2HCl (aq) + Zn (s) → ZnCl2 (aq) + H2 (g)

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acid + metal oxide =

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acid + metal oxide → salt + water

2HCl (aq) + CaO (s) → CaCl2 (aq) + H2O (l)

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acid + metal carbonate =

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acid + metal carbonate → salt + water + carbon dioxide

2HNO3 (aq) + CuCO3 (s) → Cu(NO3)2 (aq) + H2O (l) + CO2 (g)
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acid + alkali =

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acid + alkali → salt + water

HCl (aq) + NaOH (aq) → NaCl (aq) + H2O (l)

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What is a weak acid?

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A weak acid is an acid that partially (or incompletely) dissociates in aqueous solutions.

eg. ethanoic acid/ carbonic acid

(equilibrium is more to the left- there are lots more weak acid molecules than H+ and A- Ions.)

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What is the equilibrium constant for a weak acid?

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Ka

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What is the equilibrium constant expression for Ka?

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Ka = [H+] [A-] / [HA]

this can be simplified to [H]^2 / [HA]

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What are the units of Ka?

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mol dm-3

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A high Ka value means…?

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The higher the value of Ka the more dissociated the acid and the stronger it is

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A low Ka value means….?

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The lower the value of Ka the weaker the acid

18
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Why do we use pka instead of Ka?

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Its difficult to compare numbers with negative indices, so we use pka as it is whole numbers.

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How do you go from Ka to pKa?

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pKa = -log(Ka)

20
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How do you go from pKa to Ka?

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Ka = 10^-(pKa)

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A high pKa value means…?

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The acid is weak.

22
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A low pKa value means…?

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The acid is strong and more dissociated.

23
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How do you work out pH?

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pH= -log[H+]

H+ = conc of hydrogen atoms in moldm-3

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How do you calculate [H+] with the pH?

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[H+] = 10^-pH

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How much does each pH value differ by?
The pH scale is a logarithmic scale with base 10 This means that each value is 10 times the value below it. pH 1 = 10^-1 PH 2 = 10^-2
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What is the ionic product of water?
Kw
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What's the value of Kw?
1 x 10^-14 mol^2dm^-6 @ 298k
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What's the equation for Kw?
Kw = [H+][OH-] / [H20] Kw x [H20] = [H+][OH-]
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What approximations are made with Ka?
HA dissociates to create concentrations of H+ and A- this is what allows us to write [H+]^2. We also ignore the very small conc of H+ from water dissociating. As the dissociation of weak acids is small we assume that the concentration of the weak acid is the same at the start and the end.
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How do you work out pH with Ka?
square root of Ka x [HA] = H+ so you then do -log[H+]
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How do you calculate the pH of a strong acid?
Strong acids completely ionise within solution. So [H+] = [HA]
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How do you calculate the pH of a strong base?
Strong bases completely ionise within solution. So H+ = Kw (1x10^-14) / [OH-] You then use the H+ to work out pH. Kw = [OH-] x [H+]