When compared to sulfuric acid, how strong are carboxylic acids? when compared to sulfuric acid, how strong are carboxylic acids? just as strong weaker stronger not acidic at all?

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Lane Wallace

12 February, 00:46

When compared to sulfuric acid, how strong are carboxylic acids? when compared to sulfuric acid, how strong are carboxylic acids? just as strong weaker stronger not acidic at all?

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Stanley Weeks · Answer 1

Compared to sulphuric acid, carboxylic acids are much weaker, this is because of their overall characteristic with respect to pKa, they do not dissociate completely as to all be in their conjugate base form but will have equal amounts in both.

Sulfuric acid is a strong polyprotic acid, and has a pKa value that is even smaller than the carboxylic acid.