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Acids and Bases
Stepwise Ionization of Polyprotic Acids
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Polyprotic acids lose hydrogen ions in steps. The number of ionizable protons in a molecule determines whether an acid is monoprotic, diprotic, or triprotic. This video also shows that polyprotic bases can accept more than one proton.
Monoprotic acids have one ionizable hydrogen atom per molecule...
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Monoprotic acids, like hydrofluoric acid, contain a single ionizable proton. In contrast, polyprotic acids contain two or more ionizable protons. For example, sulfurous acid has two ionizable protons, and phosphoric acid has three.
A polyprotic acid loses each of its protons sequentially, and each reaction has its own Ka
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