Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Ions in water? chemistry gcse?

Though water is a covalent compound formed by sharing of electrons by hydrogen atoms and oxygen atom,and is written as H--O--H,the electronegativity differance gives it a polar character oxygen having more pull gets a negative charge and hydrogen becomes slightly positivly charged.thus in water we get H^+ ion OH^- ion and H3O^+ (hydronium ion)

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