Comment on Is water an acid or a base?
prex@aussie.zone 4 weeks agoIn high school I was told that one in avagadros number of water molecules splits into ions.
Is that right? It seems like a very small amount.
Comment on Is water an acid or a base?
prex@aussie.zone 4 weeks agoIn high school I was told that one in avagadros number of water molecules splits into ions.
Is that right? It seems like a very small amount.
phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
The dissociation constant of pure water at RT is 1x10^-14. This is many magnitudes more than just one per avogadros number. The “trick” is that any given molecule of water basically has that 1x10^-14 chance of being split or otherwise whole at any given time.