What are the products from the Reaction of water and sulphuric acid?
2 Answers
Hydrogen sulfide anion
Explanation:
Well, I would say that two reactions will occur.
The first reaction is the dissociation of sulfuric acid. The equation is:
This creates a hydrogen sulfate anion and hydronium cations.
Then, the hydrogen sulfate anion dissociates further into sulfate ions and even more hydronium ions. The equation for that is:
Note that this reaction is reversible since the hydrogen sulfate anion does not ionize completely, and so there is a chance of recombination, but sulfuric acid is a really strong acid, and so will ionize completely with little chance of reversibility.
Well, hydronium ion, and sulfate dianion
Explanation:
And note that this is stepwise reaction....the first protonolysis proceeds quantitatively...
...the second protonolysis is not as complete, however, we often treat
The overall reaction is given by the first equation...