Is it possible for a molecular substance to be a strong electroly...

Question

Is it possible for a molecular substance to be a strong electrolyte? Explain.

Accepted Answer

Welcome back, everyone. We have a tour false example, a molecular substance such as HCL can be a strong electrolyte because it completely dissolves in water. So, analyzing HCL, we can recognize that hydrogen being a non metal and chlorine being a non metal based on their position on the periodic table, definitely match the definition of a molecular compound because these two non metals are shared in a Covalin bond. So we have a covenant bond between two or more we can say or more non metal atoms. So we do have a molecular compound here, we can agree with the fact that the prompt states that this is a molecular substance. And now we need to recognize whether this is a strong electrolyte or not, recall that HCL is hydrochloric acid. And if we remember from our list of memorized, strong assets, we want to recall that this is definitely a strong acid. It's one of our memorized. Strong assets, recall that strong assets will also be strong electrolytes. And if we have a strong acid that is a strong electrolyte, then therefore, they will completely dissolve in water will say dissolve into ions in water. And so what we have is HCL plus water and we will form our H plus or proton as well as our chloride an ion because hydrochloric acid is a strong electrolyte. And so these ions would be in solution. And it's important that we use a full reaction arrow to the right because we know that HDL is a strong electrolyte. And so there won't be an equilibrium arrow for this type of compound. So we would actually agree that this statement is a true statement as our final answer, which will be corresponding to choice a in the multiple choice. I hope that everything I went through was clear. If you have any questions, please leave them down below and I'll see everyone in the next video.

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