Why is hydrogen chloride neutral in gas form and acidic in solution?
Answer:
because i dosent ionize unless it is dissolved in water! duh then when it ionizes it increases the hydrogen ions making the solution acidic
because everything is neutral in gas form. acidity refers generally to a water solution.
acids are substances, that give off H+. in the gas phase there is hardly a way for HCl to dissociate into H+ and Cl-, which is not the case in a polar solvent, such as water, where the process occurs readily, thus giving you an acid.
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