Explain why hydrochloric acid is a strong acid and acetic acid is a weak acid how can it be verified
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The acidity is measured by the number of hydrogen ions an acid releases on being dissolved in water.
Thus, HCl is considered to be a strong acid as it has higher number of hydrogen ions, whereas acetic acid contains very little number of hydrogen ions so it is considered as a weak acid.
Weak acids only partially ionize when dissolved in water, which is the case of acetic acid, whereas the strong acids completely ionize in the water making it acid.
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