What is the conjugate acid of HSO3-? What is its conjugate base?

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Hello, everyone. Today, we have been given the following problem, identify the conjugate acid and base of di hydrogen fight. So first let's identify what the definition of a conjugate acid and conjugate base are. So for a conjugate acid, this is just going to be a species that has one more proton or H plus Adam than the original species. And the original species and a conjugate base is going to be the opposite. So conjugate base is going to have our conjugate base has one less proton than the original species. So let's examine our di hydrogen phosphate phosphate. So its conjugate acid or C A is going to have one more proton, meaning we're simply just going to take our species And we're going to add one proton and that's going to give us the following. This is going to be phosphorus acid. So this is going to be our conjugate acid. And then for a conjugate base, this is simply going to be taking away a proton. So we're going to have our species once again, it's going to react in a reversible reaction to form our, what's known as meta phosphoric acid as our conjugate acid and it's going to produce a spare proton. So with that being said, our conjugate acid, we said was going to be our phosphorous acid and conjugate base, we said was going to be our meta phosphoric acid and this should be a conjugate base. And so with that, we've answered the question overall, I hope this helped. And until next time.

What is the conjugate acid of HSO3-? What is its conjugate base?

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Key Concepts

Conjugate Acid-Base Pairs

HSO3- as a Base

Identifying Conjugates