9 STRENGTHS OF ACIDS

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STRENGTHS OF ACIDS

CHAPTER 9 (11 pages) Ignoring the leveling effect of water, the relative strengths of acids have been interpreted based on their structures and electron configurations. After going through this chapter, one would write a few sentences about the relative strengths of, say, HNO₃ and HClO₃.

In this chapter, the acids have been grouped together as given below.

IV A V A VI A VII A

(H₂CO₃) HNO₃

(H₂SiO₄) H₃PO₄ H₂SO₄ HClO₄

H₃AsO₄ H₂SeO₄ HBrO₄

H₆TeO₆ H₃IO₅