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aliina [53]
3 years ago
8

Explain how the presence of several oxygen atoms ina compound containing an-OH group can make the compound acidic.

Chemistry
1 answer:
Lina20 [59]3 years ago
7 0
<span>In each case, the same bond gets broken - the bond between the hydrogen and oxygen in an -OH group. Writing the rest of the molecule as "X"
</span>

The factors to consider

Two of the factors which influence the ionisation of an acid are:

<span>the strength of the bond being broken,the stability of the ions being formed.</span>

In these cases, you seem to be breaking the same oxygen-hydrogen bond each time, and so you might expect the strengths to be similar.

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