Not always ammonium salts of weak acids form neutral solutions.
When formic acid reacts with ammonia, ammonium formate is produced:
HCO2H + NH3 ----> NH4HCO2
You already know that the weak conjugate bases of NH3 and HCO2H are NH4+ and HCO2, respectively.
How can the pH of the solution be calculated if the salt's anion causes the pH to rise and the salt's cation causes it to fall? The relative intensities of the basic anion and the acidic cation hold the key to the solution.
As was already established, formate is a weak base and will create hydroxide ions in water, whereas ammonium is a weak acid and will make hydronium ions in water.
NH4⁺ + H2O -----> NH3 + H3O⁺
HCO2⁻ + H2O -----> HCO2H + OH⁻
Since the acid ionization of NH4+ is more favored than the base ionization of HCO2-, the solution will be acidic.
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The correct answer is B. Solubility describes the amount of solute that can be dissolved in a solvent. This value is not constant is affected by many factors. One factor is the temperature. An increase in temperature, a corresponding change in solubility also can be observed. The increase leads to a decrease in the solubility and the opposite. A decrease is observed since gas molecules are now has enough energy to escape the liquid phase and go to the gas phase.
YES, the arrangement of elements on the periodic table relate to their chemical properties
Explanation:
As you move across a period, the atomic radius decreases due to the increase in atomic mass and hence attraction of orbitals by the increasingly positive nucleus. Therefore, the atoms become increasingly harder to lose electrons (due to increasing ionization energy) in their valence shell and more likely to take up electrons in chemical reactions.
The lower you go down the periodic table the higher the reactivity of the atoms. This is because they have more electron shells and the valence electrons are shielded from the atomic nuclei by underlying orbitals. This means that the valence electrons are easily lost (ionization energy is low) and can, therefore, react fast in chemical reactions.
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Answer:
cools as it rises, then sinks back down
Explanation:
The movement of air is a convection current. Convection currents occur when warm air rises, cools down, and sinks due to gained density, replacing the warm air closer to the ground, creating a cycle.
