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Conjugate base - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: Affiliate, Allied, Amalgamated, Analyze, Assemble, Assimilated, Band, Bond, Bound, Bracket, Bridge, Cement, Chain |
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In the field of chemistry, in the Brønsted-Lowry (protonic) theory of acids and bases, a conjugate base is the basic member, X-, of a pair of compounds that differ only by the presence or absence of a proton at a certain position. The acid produced by gain of a proton, HX, is called the conjugate acid.
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