{"id":197341,"date":"2025-03-07T05:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T05:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=197341"},"modified":"2025-03-07T05:54:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T05:54:20","slug":"give-the-conjugate-acid-and-conjugate-base-of-hso3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/07\/give-the-conjugate-acid-and-conjugate-base-of-hso3\/","title":{"rendered":"Give the conjugate acid and conjugate base of HSO3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Give the conjugate acid and conjugate base of HSO3<br>A) H3SO3, SO32-<br>B) HSO3, HSO3-<br>C) H2SO3, SO32-<br>D) SO3, H2SO3<br>CE) HSO3, SO32-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ast-global-color-6-color\"><strong>The correct answer and explanation is :<\/strong><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The correct answer is:<br><strong>C) H\u2082SO\u2083 (conjugate acid), SO\u2083\u00b2\u207b (conjugate base).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Explanation:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>To determine the <strong>conjugate acid<\/strong> and <strong>conjugate base<\/strong> of <strong>HSO\u2083\u207b<\/strong>, we need to understand the <strong>Br\u00f8nsted-Lowry acid-base theory<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Conjugate Acid<\/strong>: When a species gains a proton (( H^+ )), it forms its conjugate acid.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Conjugate Base<\/strong>: When a species loses a proton (( H^+ )), it forms its conjugate base.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. <strong>Finding the Conjugate Acid of HSO\u2083\u207b<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>To find the conjugate acid, we <strong>add<\/strong> a proton (( H^+ )) to <strong>HSO\u2083\u207b<\/strong>:<br>[<br>HSO_3^- + H^+ \\rightarrow H_2SO_3<br>]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The resulting species is <strong>H\u2082SO\u2083<\/strong> (sulfurous acid), which is the <strong>conjugate acid<\/strong> of HSO\u2083\u207b.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. <strong>Finding the Conjugate Base of HSO\u2083\u207b<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>To find the conjugate base, we <strong>remove<\/strong> a proton (( H^+ )) from <strong>HSO\u2083\u207b<\/strong>:<br>[<br>HSO_3^- \\rightarrow SO_3^{2-} + H^+<br>]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The resulting species is <strong>SO\u2083\u00b2\u207b<\/strong> (sulfite ion), which is the <strong>conjugate base<\/strong> of HSO\u2083\u207b.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, the conjugate acid of <strong>HSO\u2083\u207b<\/strong> is <strong>H\u2082SO\u2083<\/strong>, and its conjugate base is <strong>SO\u2083\u00b2\u207b<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why the Other Options Are Incorrect:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>A) H\u2083SO\u2083 does not exist<\/strong> as a stable compound.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>B) HSO\u2083\u207b cannot be its own conjugate acid and conjugate base.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>D) SO\u2083 is not the correct conjugate base of HSO\u2083\u207b.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>E) HSO\u2083 cannot be its own conjugate acid.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This confirms that <strong>option C is correct<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-456.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-197342\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve provided an image illustrating the conjugate acid-base relationship of HSO\u2083\u207b. It visually represents how HSO\u2083\u207b transitions to its conjugate acid (H\u2082SO\u2083) and conjugate base (SO\u2083\u00b2\u207b) through proton transfer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Give the conjugate acid and conjugate base of HSO3A) H3SO3, SO32-B) HSO3, HSO3-C) H2SO3, SO32-D) SO3, H2SO3CE) HSO3, SO32- The correct answer and explanation is : The correct answer is:C) H\u2082SO\u2083 (conjugate acid), SO\u2083\u00b2\u207b (conjugate base). Explanation: To determine the conjugate acid and conjugate base of HSO\u2083\u207b, we need to understand the Br\u00f8nsted-Lowry acid-base theory: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}