Hey everyone, So here we're going to say that binary acids represent covalent compounds containing the H ion bonded to a nonmetal anion, not including oxygen. OK, so binary acids are acids that do not possess oxygen within themselves.
So if we took a look at two typical types of binary acids, let's look at H+ connecting to Br-. Remember, when the numbers are the same in terms of their charges, they just simply cancel out. So our acid here would be HBr, which is hydrobromic acid.
And then here let's do H+ connecting to SH-. Again, the numbers are the same, they just simply cancel out. So this becomes H2S. This is representing hydrogen, sulfur, hydrosulfuric acid, right?
So here we have two typical types of binary acids. So remember, when we're looking at a binary acid, it does not possess oxygen.