What's the problem ? Hardness is not the definition of a metal.
You need to expand your thinking. EVERY element is solid, liquid, and gas, over different ranges of temperature ... including all of the metals. There are only TWO elements that are liquid AT ROOM TEMPERATURE, and mercury is one of them. But on a mild day at the south pole, mercury is solid too.
Answer: Physical properties
Explanation: Can be measured without changing a substance's chemical identity.
Answer:
Approximately 
, assuming that this acid is monoprotic.
Explanation:
Assume that this acid is monoprotic. Let 
denote this acid.
.
Initial concentration of without any dissociation:
![[{\rm HA}] = 0.730\; \rm mol \cdot L^{-1}](https://tex.z-dn.net/?f=%5B%7B%5Crm%20HA%7D%5D%20%3D%200.730%5C%3B%20%5Crm%20mol%20%5Ccdot%20L%5E%7B-1%7D)
.
After 
of that was dissociated, the concentration of both 
and 
(conjugate base of this acid) would become:
.
Concentration of in the solution after dissociation:
.
Let ![[{\rm HA}]](https://tex.z-dn.net/?f=%5B%7B%5Crm%20HA%7D%5D)
, ![[{\rm H}^{+}]](https://tex.z-dn.net/?f=%5B%7B%5Crm%20H%7D%5E%7B%2B%7D%5D)
, and ![[{\rm A}^{-}]](https://tex.z-dn.net/?f=%5B%7B%5Crm%20A%7D%5E%7B-%7D%5D)
denote the concentration (in 
or 
) of the corresponding species at equilibrium. Calculate the acid dissociation constant 
for , under the assumption that this acid is monoprotic:
![\begin{aligned}K_{\rm a} &= \frac{[{\rm H}^{+}] \cdot [{\rm A}^{-}]}{[{\rm HA}]} \\ &= \frac{(0.09125\; \rm mol \cdot L^{-1}) \times (0.09125\; \rm mol \cdot L^{-1})}{0.63875\; \rm mol \cdot L^{-1}}\\[0.5em]&\approx 1.30 \times 10^{-2} \end{aligned}](https://tex.z-dn.net/?f=%5Cbegin%7Baligned%7DK_%7B%5Crm%20a%7D%20%26%3D%20%5Cfrac%7B%5B%7B%5Crm%20H%7D%5E%7B%2B%7D%5D%20%5Ccdot%20%5B%7B%5Crm%20A%7D%5E%7B-%7D%5D%7D%7B%5B%7B%5Crm%20HA%7D%5D%7D%20%5C%5C%20%26%3D%20%5Cfrac%7B%280.09125%5C%3B%20%5Crm%20mol%20%5Ccdot%20L%5E%7B-1%7D%29%20%5Ctimes%20%280.09125%5C%3B%20%5Crm%20mol%20%5Ccdot%20L%5E%7B-1%7D%29%7D%7B0.63875%5C%3B%20%5Crm%20mol%20%5Ccdot%20L%5E%7B-1%7D%7D%5C%5C%5B0.5em%5D%26%5Capprox%201.30%20%5Ctimes%2010%5E%7B-2%7D%20%5Cend%7Baligned%7D)
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