Identify each of the following as an acid, base, or salt, and giv...

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Identify each of the following as an acid, base, or salt, and give its name: (10.1)e. H₂CO₃

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Welcome back, everyone. We need to classify the following compound as an acid base or salt and write its name H two T E 03 whose poly atomic anion inhibits the oxidation of a biological substrate. We're going to begin by categorizing between acids and base. Beginning with acids recall that acids will ionize in solution. So we can begin with water which can act as an acid. And on the product side, we would produce H plus which is our or a proton and can be an electron pair acceptor and we would also form our conjugate bases. A minus. We next want to recall that acids are covalent compounds in which we typically have hydrogen as our first atom bonded to X where X we would consider a nonmetal or poly atomic an ion. So next we third want to recall that for acids, as we stated before, we have often h as the first element in the name or we'll say in the chemical formula. Now let's move on to bases where first we would recall that bases will also ionize. So we can still use water as a base where in equilibrium we would form a metal ion as well as our hydroxide anion where our, our hydroxide anion can be an electron pair donor due to the abundance of electrons from that negative one charge on hydroxide. Second, we want to recall that bases are typically considered ionic compounds. And thus, we have a metal bonded to again, a hydroxide an ion. And third, we want to recall and actually, before we go to our third point, I just would like to emphasize that our metal in our ionic compound should be a metal ion. So I meant to draw in a plus exponent on our symbol M for metal. Now, moving on again to our third point for base, we want to recall that base can also be considered a means or nitrogen containing compounds in which we have our carbon chain r bonded to a nitrogen with two bonds to hydrogen. We can have two carbon chains bonded to nitrogen. So we have our prime for our second carbon chain. And then we can also have a third type of, I mean, where we have three carbon chains attached to our nitrogen. So now with our differentiation between acids and bases, we're going to focus on our given compound H two T E 03. So we have given H two T E 03, we should recognize by its subscript of two next to hydrogen that we have a dip protic compound. So we have two available hydrogens which can dissociate and we would show two equilibrium where we have H two T E 03, which is an equilibrium with the release of our first proton H plus. And then our resulting conjugate base H T E +03 with a one minus charge based on what we outlined for acids, we would consider H two T E +03 as our acid. In this case, since it releases a proton and acts as an electron pair acceptor forming our conjugate base with that minus one charge. Next, we would show its second ionization where we have our conjugate base. Now beginning so H T E 031 minus in equilibrium with the release of our second proton H plus, resulting in our new conjugate base, which would be the result of that proton being released. So we would have T E +03 with a two minus anion charge. Now again, this is our conjugate base number two. We can also observe that our compound H two T E consists of all nonmetals. So all nonmetal atoms. So therefore, we have a covalent compound here. So not only does that signal that we have an acid, but also the fact that we have hydrogen in the beginning of our formula. And so thus, we can confirm that this is a dip protic acid. Now, we need to figure out the name of this acid. So we're going to begin by naming our poly atomic an ion which consists in our compound H two T E 03. So that would be our T E 032 minus anion which we should recognize as tele anion. Sorry, that is T E L L U R I T E recall that when we have our suffix and in it, in our acid name, we would use, we would convert that suffix it to the suffix us O us. So we'll say plus us and that is plus O us acid as the name. And so therefore, our name is going to be for our Diro Acid Tele acid. And we can identify this as an oxy acid. Since we have additional oxygens for our two available ionize protons. We have three total oxygens and only two hydrogens. So we have an oxy acid. So our final answer is going to be that H two T E 03 represents the name Teus acid and is again an acid. Our final answers are acid and Teller's acid. I hope this made sense and let us know if you have any questions.

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