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hydrogen chloride dissolves in water to produce hydrochloric acid. Hydrochloric acid is a strong acid. What is meant by the term strong acid?
Original post by SkyeOlivia
hydrogen chloride dissolves in water to produce hydrochloric acid. Hydrochloric acid is a strong acid. What is meant by the term strong acid?
A strong acid is one which fully dissociates into its ions when dissolved in water. For HCl, those ions would be H+ and Cl-.
Essentially when it's in water all of it becomes hydrogen ions and Chloride ions rather than some of it remaining as HCl and forming an equilibrium like a weak acid would.
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