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Grade 11Physical Chemistry

In the reaction-
H2SO4+NaOH- NaHSO4+H2O
why is the n-factor of H2SO4 1.

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8 Years agoGrade 11
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Profile image of venkat
8 Years ago
In this reaction the change in number of hydrogen atoms on sulphuric acid is only one.
In simpler words here only one equivalent of H2SO4 reacts eith 1 equivalent of sodium hydroxide.
So here the basicity of sulphuric acid is nly one.
But this is not the case in all chemical reactions, sometimes it may be ‘2’