Wednesday 18 June 2014

Calculating pH - Strong Acids

Strong acids fully dissociate - all of their hydrogen atoms react with water to become hydronium ions. We use the concentration of hydronium ions to calculate the pH:

pH = -log[H3O+]

Likewise, we can use the pH to calculate the hydronium ion concentration:

[H3O+] = 10-pH


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