Iv'e been doing some research for a personal project and iv'e hit a roadblock.
what i would like to know is; what is the chemical composition of a mixture of sulfuric acid and water?
after doing some research iv'e gotten two different answers.
One is that simply a dilution of sulfuric acid will be made.
The other is that adding water to acid will force an ionization where H
2O will steal the hydrogen from the H
2(SO
4) making H
3O
+ and H(SO
4)
-. The H(SO
4)
- will react with more H
2O to create another H
3O
+ and (SO
4)
(2-) (Sulfate).
Balanced:
H
2(SO
4)
(L) + 2(H
2O)
(L) 2(H
3O
+)
(L) + SO
4(2-)(S)If this reaction is correct then, there should be a precipitate of Sulfate, though when watching videos of this mixture i see no solids formed. Where am i getting this wrong?
Thanks.