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Nitrous acid (molecular formula H N O 2) is a weak and monoprotic acid known only in solution, in the gas phase, and in the form of nitrite (NO − 2) salts. [3] It was discovered by Carl Wilhelm Scheele, who called it "phlogisticated acid of niter". Nitrous acid is used to make diazonium salts from amines.
For example, acetic acid is a weak acid which has a = 1.75 x 10 −5. Its conjugate base is the acetate ion with K b = 10 −14 /K a = 5.7 x 10 −10 (from the relationship K a × K b = 10 −14), which certainly does not correspond to a strong base. The conjugate of a weak acid is often a weak base and vice versa.
There are two possible structures of hyponitrous acid, trans and cis.trans-Hyponitrous acid forms white crystals that are explosive when dry.In aqueous solution, it is a weak acid (pK a1 = 7.21, pK a2 = 11.54), [2] and decomposes to nitrous oxide and water with a half life of 16 days at 25 °C at pH 1–3:
Nitric acid, with a pK value of around −1.7, behaves as a strong acid in aqueous solutions with a pH greater than 1. [23] At lower pH values it behaves as a weak acid. pK a values for strong acids have been estimated by theoretical means. [24] For example, the pK a value of aqueous HCl has been estimated as −9.3.
Nitrite is the conjugate base of the weak acid nitrous acid: HNO 2 ⇌ H + + NO − 2; pK a ≈ 3.3 at 18 °C [3] Nitrous acid is also highly unstable, tending to disproportionate: 3 HNO 2 (aq) ⇌ H 3 O + + NO − 3 + 2 NO. This reaction is slow at 0 °C. [2]
A solution of nitric acid, water and alcohol, nital, is used for etching metals to reveal the microstructure. ISO 14104 is one of the standards detailing this well known procedure. [45] Nitric acid is used either in combination with hydrochloric acid or alone to clean glass cover slips and glass slides for high-end microscopy applications. [46]
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Strong bases are leveling solvents for acids, weak bases are differentiating solvents for acids. In a leveling solvent, many acids are completely dissociated and are thus of the same strength. All acids tend to become indistinguishable in strength when dissolved in strongly basic solvents owing to the greater affinity of strong bases for protons.