{"id":202164,"date":"2025-03-17T08:42:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T08:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=202164"},"modified":"2025-03-17T08:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T08:42:08","slug":"which-of-the-following-is-the-strongest-acid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/17\/which-of-the-following-is-the-strongest-acid\/","title":{"rendered":"Which of the following is the strongest acid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Which of the following is the strongest acid?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HBrO<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HBrO4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HBrO3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HBrO2<\/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 strongest acid among the given options is <strong>HBrO\u2084 (Perbromic acid).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Explanation:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Acid strength in oxyacids (acids containing oxygen) depends on two main factors:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Oxidation State of the Central Atom<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In oxyacids of the same halogen (bromine in this case), the acid strength increases as the oxidation state of bromine increases.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The oxidation states of bromine in the given acids are:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>HBrO (Hypobromous acid):<\/strong> +1<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>HBrO\u2082 (Bromous acid):<\/strong> +3<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>HBrO\u2083 (Bromic acid):<\/strong> +5<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>HBrO\u2084 (Perbromic acid):<\/strong> +7<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A higher oxidation state means greater electron-withdrawing ability, leading to a more polar O-H bond and easier proton (H\u207a) dissociation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Electronegativity and Inductive Effect<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>More oxygen atoms increase the electronegativity of the molecule, pulling electron density away from the acidic hydrogen.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This weakens the O-H bond, making it easier for the hydrogen ion to dissociate, increasing acidity.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>HBrO\u2084 has the most oxygen atoms, which means it has the strongest inductive effect, making it the strongest acid.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Conclusion:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Since <strong>HBrO\u2084<\/strong> has the highest oxidation state (+7) and the most oxygen atoms, it is the <strong>strongest acid<\/strong> among the given choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Acid strength order:<\/strong><br><strong>HBrO &lt; HBrO\u2082 &lt; HBrO\u2083 &lt; HBrO\u2084 (weakest to strongest).<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which of the following is the strongest acid? HBrO HBrO4 HBrO3 HBrO2 The correct answer and explanation is : The strongest acid among the given options is HBrO\u2084 (Perbromic acid). Explanation: Acid strength in oxyacids (acids containing oxygen) depends on two main factors: Conclusion: Since HBrO\u2084 has the highest oxidation state (+7) and the most [&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-202164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202164","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=202164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}