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Originally Posted by RedDevil
In water one in ten million hydrogen atom will be a loose ion because of the polar properties of water molecules...
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I have to pull that back.
There are no sole hydrogen ions, called hydrons, in water.
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Originally Posted by Wikipedia
In chemistry, a hydron is the general name for a cationic form of atomic hydrogen, represented with the symbol H+.
However, in most textbooks, this term is avoided and instead "proton" is used ...
The hydron (a completely free or "naked" hydrogen atomic nucleus) is too reactive to occur in many liquids, even though it is sometimes visualized to do so by students of chemistry. A free hydron would react with a molecule of the liquid to form a more complicated cation. Examples are the hydronium ion in water-based acids, and H 2F+, the unstable cation of fluoroantimonic acid, the strongest superacid. For this reason, in such liquids including liquid acids, hydrons diffuse by contact from one complex cation to another, via the Grotthuss mechanism.[2] |
In Ph neutral water, there will be about one hydronium ion per ten million water molecules. Just to keep the record straight.
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Last edited by RedDevil; 07-21-2016 at 12:11 PM..
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