Dissolving Weak Acids: What to Expect with 0.5g Sodium Acetate in Water

[biscuits 13]

"If 0.5g of sodium acetate is dissolved in water, what would you expect to find in the resulting solution"?


Is it acetic acid, acetate, or hydroxide? I don't know how to set this one up

 

[Borek]

All of them. Acetate is a weak base. See Bronsted-Lowry theory.