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Offline clout90265

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Net Ionic Equation for Titration problem!
« on: August 22, 2008, 10:36:43 PM »
 what is the net ionic equation for the reaction that occurs during the titration of nitrous
acid with sodium hydroxide?

im not sure what species to include? thanks!
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Re: Net Ionic Equation for Titration problem!
« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2008, 05:23:16 AM »
Nitrous acid is a weak acid so it does not completely dissociate in water.  So you can write for the net ionic equation :

HNO2 + OH- ---> NO2- + H2O

Na+ is not included in the net ionic equation because it is a spectator ion.
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