How to explain the shape of a titration curve
1. Strong acid – strong base titrations Imagine we are titrating a strong acid such as hydrochloric acid against a
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How to calculate the pH of a base
Once again, we can assume that strong bases are fully dissociated in solution so the concentration of OH– is the
What are conjugate acid-base pairs?
We should start by appreciating that in reality many acid-base reactions are equilibrium reactions, even if it doesn’t appear obvious
How to define an acid or a base?
At GCSE we defined acids as substances that ionised in water to give hydrogen ions, and an alkali dissolved in
Elimination reactions in halogenoalkanes
Halogenoalkanes undergo substitution reactions in the presence of a nucleophile such as the hydroxide ion, OH–, but most good nucleophiles