Sentences with phrase «forming weak acids»
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«Willow bark is a source of salicylates, which is a weaker form of salicylic acid.
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CO2 emissions may be 100 times that of sulfur, but the resulting carbonic acid formed in water is much weaker than sulfuric acid!
A common definition of carbonic acid is «a weak dibasic acid formed when carbon dioxide dissolves in water.»
But the bond is weak causing carbonic acid to convert back and forth with its CO2 form so rapidly, most researchers treat these two forms as the same chemical species.
On Earth, atmospheric CO2 is absorbed by precipitation --- by rain — and forms a very weak solution of carbonic acid, a very mild form of acid rain.
Carbonic acid is a weak acid, and weak acids are critical buffering agents for most living organisms precisely because its species can rapidly and reversibly change form.
However when in contact with water it forms the weak, diprotic carbonic acid (H 2 CO 3)