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Title: World's Strongest Acid
Post by: Mitch on November 16, 2004, 06:03:16 PM

More great research from UC Riverside. :)

http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041115/full/041115-5.html

Title: Re:World's Strongest Acid
Post by: ssssss on November 17, 2004, 07:20:55 AM

I always thought that the strongest Hydracid Known was Perchloric acid[HCLO₄]

Title: Re:World's Strongest Acid
Post by: limpet chicken on November 17, 2004, 07:51:39 AM

I thought the strongest superacid to be (SbF5)HF, pentafluoroantimonic acid.

Title: Re:World's Strongest Acid
Post by: gregpawin on November 17, 2004, 12:30:40 PM

Isn't it that if you stick a proton on anything electropositive it'll become a superacid?

I've taken this guy's class... he likes to relate chemistry concepts to people... like how electron shells are defined by the clash of two forces, penetration and shielding.  Guys are for the former idea and girls are for the latter idea... and that's what I learned from his class.

Title: Re:World's Strongest Acid
Post by: Heyeon on November 28, 2004, 09:41:08 PM

thats some neat work!!

Title: Re:World's Strongest Acid
Post by: nature21 on July 31, 2005, 12:16:58 PM

right! the acid strength of HF/SbF5 is 1000,000,000 times than concentrated H2SO4  (100%)

sometime it can be  used in some acid catalyzed rearrangement  reaction

Title: Re:World's Strongest Acid
Post by: Donaldson Tan on August 01, 2005, 12:06:55 PM

Isn't HF-SbF5 magic acid? It's used in superacid catalysis of zeolite systems.