Give reason for the following.
a. Hydronium ions are always in the form H3O+
b. Buttermilk spoils if kept in a copper or brass container.
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b. because it reacts with copper highly and also with brass
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a.hydronium ion are always in the form of H3O+ because hydrogen ion can't exist alone, but they exist after combining with water molecule
b. However in the presence of lactic acid in buttermilk the copper does not liberate hydrogen but due to oxidizing property of acid it gets oxidized to Cu2+ and thus leaches out to buttermilk and gets spoilt.
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