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conjugate acid

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.85 in modern English

Syllables
con-ju-gate acid
IPA
26
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any compound, of general formula HXⁿ⁺, which can be transformed into a conjugate base X⁽ⁿ⁻¹⁾⁺ by the loss of a proton.

Example Sentences

  • "HCl => Cl⁻"
  • "H₂SO₄ => HSO₄⁻"
  • "NH₄⁺ => NH₃"

Inflected Forms

conjugate acids (plural)

Questions

What does conjugate acid mean?
Any compound, of general formula HXⁿ⁺, which can be transformed into a conjugate base X⁽ⁿ⁻¹⁾⁺ by the loss of a proton.

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