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Title: COH4 disolved in water
Post by: Revrim on October 15, 2019, 02:19:20 AM

want to make sure i have this right. Question is write the formula of the ions that are present if any when the following are disolved in water.  COH4 not sure if i'm thinking about this correctly.  all I can come up wiht is H+ and HCO3- but the euation doesn't seem to balance.  Is there a polyatomic ion i'm missing? Thanks for the help.

Title: Re: COH4 disolved in water
Post by: chenbeier on October 15, 2019, 02:32:17 AM

What COH₄ should be. Do you mean CH₃OH Methanol.. This dissolves in water like water itselff. Some hydrogen bridges are built.

Title: Re: COH4 disolved in water
Post by: AWK on October 15, 2019, 11:48:26 AM

From a further context, one can suppose rather that it is CO₂ dissolved in water, i.e. carbonic acid.