HYDRONIUM

Hydronium

The hydronium cation, also known as hydroxonium is the positively charged polyatomic ion with the chemical formula . Hydronium, a type of oxonium ion, is formed by the protonation of water . This cation is often used to represent the nature of the proton in aqueous solution, where the proton is highly solvated . The reality is far more complicated, and a proton is bound to several molecules of water, such that other descriptions such as H5O2+, H7O3+ and H9O4+ are increasingly accurate descriptions of the environment of a proton in water. The ion has ...

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hydronium

Noun

  1. the hydrated hydrogen ion, H3O+


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