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8 Apr 2005, 10:53 PM   | Acid/Base reactions You can hide this advertisement by registering. about the dot point -Gather and process information from secondary sources to trace developments in understanding and describing acid/base reactions- could someone help me sort this out properly .. because i don't seem to understand how to write it out as in relation with scientist such as lavoisier etc...  thanks so much much regards, wendi
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30 Jul 2009, 9:22 PM  | The first definition of acids and bases were derived from our taste of them. Acids tasted sour, hence it was derived from the Latin word: acer, meaning sharp. Bases, to humans, tasted bitter. In 1776, the Frenchman Antoine Lavoisier discovered that many compounds with oxygen (non-metallic oxides) developed acidic properties in solution. He defined an acid as a non-metal compound containing oxygen. In 1810, Humphry Davy showed that HCl has acidic properties and contained no oxygen. He redefined an acid as a substance containing hydrogen. In 1894, Svante Arrhenius redefined the theory to explain that acids contain H+ ions which are liberated in solution. A base, he said, is a substance which contains OH ions in solution. However this theory does not account for all bases, such as sodium carbonate (Na2CO3). In 1923, the Danish scientist Johannes Brnsted and Englishman Thomas Lowry proposed independent theories that an acid is a proton donor, a base a proton acceptor. From Frigid's Chemistry notes
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11 Apr 2004, 1:15 AM   | ahhh... lavoisier the father of modern chemistry. but whats with him and his oxygens... just because he named it he has to conclude everything contained oxygen... idiot. |
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8 Apr 2005, 10:53 PM | well.. hey guys... his a scientist =D his smart.... his famous.. and yeh.. his mistakes are still recorded =] enough said =D i won't even go NEAR that stage haha.. =)
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