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Offline BaO

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the levelling effect
« on: June 26, 2006, 11:09:25 PM »
that was a part of my lesson today , and i didnt get these sentence:
 " water is said to have 'levelled' all the strong acids to the same strength , they are all solutions of
H3O+(aq).therfore  H3O+ is the strongest acid which can exist in aqueous solution"

 eventhough in the table of Relative Strengths of Bronsted-lowry Acids and Bases , there are a lot of acids stronger than H3O+ and can react with water , how come?
 
and what is meant by "the strongest acid which can exist in aqueous solution"?
 
please help me figure it out , thank you!!


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Re: the levelling effect
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2006, 01:29:47 AM »
Well, there are other types of solvents than water.
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Re: the levelling effect
« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2006, 08:14:04 AM »
that was a part of my lesson today , and i didnt get these sentence:
 " water is said to have 'levelled' all the strong acids to the same strength , they are all solutions of
H3O+(aq).therfore  H3O+ is the strongest acid which can exist in aqueous solution"


i think it just means that any acid stronger than H30+ will dissociate to completion at reasonable conentrations (medium to low) and therefore will not infact be present in the water(i.e aqueous state). So thus,  H3O+ is the strongest possible acid in aqueus state.

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Re: the levelling effect
« Reply #3 on: June 27, 2006, 11:36:19 AM »
ok ,now i got it:D
thank you  ;D

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